1678 in music

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The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • January 2 – Public opera in Hamburg begins when the Oper am Gänsemarkt is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Theile's biblical Singspiel Adam und Eva.
  • May 4 – André Campra begins ecclesiastical studies at the age of 17.[1]
  • June 19 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers is appointed to join Nicolas Lebègue, Jacques Thomelin and Jean Buterne as an organists of the Chapelle Royale at the French court.
  • John Blow becomes a doctor of music.
  • Seventeen-year-old Giacomo Antonio Perti composes his first opera.
  • The Teatro Grimani is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.

    Classical music

    • Albertus Bryne – 5 dance movements
    • Henry Purcell – 3 Parts upon a Ground, Z.731[2]
    • Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani – Capricci armonici da chiesa e da camera, Op.4
    • Bernardo Pasquini – Sant'Agnese
    • Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Il transito di S. Giuseppe

    Opera

    • Jean-Baptiste Lully
      • Psyche
      • Bellérophon, LWV 57
    • Johann Theile – Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch.
    • Carlo Pallavicino – Il Vespasiano
    • Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Astianatte
    • La Despina, Agnelli, Milano 1678, performed in Milan.

    Births

    • March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, composer (died 1741)
    • July 6 – Nicola Francesco Haym, opera librettist and composer (died 1727)
    • December 30 – William Croft, organist and composer (died 1727)
    • probable – Manuel de Zumaya, composer (died 1755)

    Deaths

    • March – Jacques Hardel, harpsichordist and composer
    • August 5 – Juan García de Zéspedes, composer (born 1619)
    • September 28 – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (born 1616)
    • November 18 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, violinist and composer
    • date unknown
      • Leonora Duarte, composer
      • John Jenkins, composer (born 1592)
    • probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Benedictine nun and composer (born 1602)

    References

    1. ↑ James R. Anthony, "Campra, André", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
    2. ↑ "3 Parts upon a Ground, Z.731 (Purcell, Henry) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
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