1674 in music

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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* April – Thomas Shadwell produces a revision of the Dryden/Davenant version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Furnished with music by John Bannister, Giovanni Battista Draghi, Pelham Humfrey, Pietro Reggio, and Matthew Locke, it became a great popular success.
* September 29 – Nicholas Staggins is appointed Master of the Kings Music
* Johann Aegidius Bach is appointed organist at the Kaufmannskirche in Erfurt
* John Blow is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal
* Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude.
* Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
* Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.

## Published popular music

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## Classical music

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* Heinrich Biber
* Missa Christi resurgentis à 20
* Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
* Dieterich Buxtehude
* Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfarth, published in Lübeck (consisting of Mit Fried und Freud, composed 1671, and Klag-Lied)
* Klag-Lied: Muß der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings
* Drei schöne Dinge sind, BuxWV 19
* Cristofaro Caresana
* La caccia del toro
* La Veglia
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier
* Laudate Dominum, H.159
* Domine Dominus noster, H.163
* Pour Ste. Anne, H.315
* Francesco Corbetta – La Guitarre Royalle
* Carolus Hacquart – Cantiones sacrae, Op.1
* Bishop Thomas Ken – "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
* Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – Mottetto Sitientes venite
* Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
* Gaspar Sanz – Instrucción de Música

## Opera

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* Jean-Baptiste Lully – Alceste

## Births

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* January 9 – Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
* July 11 or July 16[1] – Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
* September 29 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (died 1763)
* November 23 – Pierre Dumage, organist and composer (died 1751)
* date unknown – Ambrose Philips, poet and lyricist (died 1749)
* probable – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (suicide 1707)

## Deaths

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* January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
* February 22 – John Wilson, theatre composer (born 1595)
* February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
* July 14 – Pelham Humfrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
* October 15 – Robert Herrick, poet and lyricist (born 1591)
* October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, hymnist (born 1614)
* November 8 – John Milton, poet and lyricist (born 1608)
* date unknown
* Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)

## References

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1. ^ "Category:Watts, Isaac/Librettist - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved 2022-01-18.

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