The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.
Events March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière,Jan Clarke, "From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life after Molière". Accessed 28 February 2013 who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him. December 30 – John Banister begins Europe’s first major commercial public concert series at Whitefriars in the City of London. Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.Penny Cyclopedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1837), vol 8, p468. Accessed 28 February 2013
Publications New Court SongsIndex of Poems Contained within New Court Songs 1672 . Accessed 28 February 2013 Thomas Salmon – Observations upon a Late Book
Classical music Dietrich Buxtehude – Auf stimmet die Saiten, BuxWV 116 Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe pour les trépassés, H.2 Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, H.3 Messe à quatre choeurs, H.4 Te Deum, H.145 Symphonies pour un reposoir, H.515 Jean-Baptiste Lully Marche Les folies d'Espagne Francesco Passarini – Compieta concertata..., Op. 3 (Bologna: Giacomo Monti) Heinrich Schütz – Matthäus-Passion Johann Sebastiani – Matthaus-Passion
Opera Antonio Draghi – Gl'atomi d'Epicuro Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – La estatua de Prometeo Antonio Masini – Achille in Siro Giovanni Maria Pagliardi – Caligula delirante Antonio Sartorio – Adelaide
Births January 16 – Francesco Mancini, composer (died 1737) March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742) April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749) May 1 – Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician (died 1719) June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748) September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703) November 6 – Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer (died 1738) December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737) date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)
Deaths January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603) January 15 – John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus" (born 1594) March 8 – Nicolaus Hasse, composer (born c. 1617) June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605) July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616) August 9 – José Ximénez, organist and composer (born 1601) September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet (born 1612) November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585) December 17 – Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer date unknown Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (born c.1601) Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker (born c. 1595) probable – François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)
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