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1670 in music

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The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
  • October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.

Publications

  • Angelo Berardi – Discorsi musicali

Classical music

  • Angelo Berardi – Sinfonie a violino solo con basso continuo Libro primo, Op. 7
  • Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – O pretiosum, O salutiferum, H.245
  • Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
  • Giovanni Legrenzi – Acclamationi divote, Op.10
  • Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Baletti pro tabula in C major for 2 trumpets, organ, strings (CZ-KRa A 885)

[[Opera]]

  • Ludovico Busca – L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni

Births

  • January 24 – William Congreve, lyricist and librettist (died 1729)
  • July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
  • July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
  • September 9 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer (died 1699)
  • date unknown
    • Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
    • Pompeo Cannicciari, Italian composer (died 1744)
    • Henry Eccles, English composer (died 1742)
    • John Christian Jacobi, composer (died 1750)
    • Turlough O'Carolan, harpist (died 1738)
  • probable
    • Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
    • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)

Deaths

  • April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (born 1611)
  • April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer (born c.1590)
  • July 18 – Giuseppe Allevi, composer (born c. 1603)
  • date unknown
    • François Du Fault, composer
    • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)
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