1678 in music

Overview of the events of 1678 in music

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The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* 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.

## Published popular music

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## Classical music

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* Albertus Bryne – 5 dance movements[clarification needed]
* Henry Purcell – 3 Parts upon a Ground, Z.731[2][failed verification]
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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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