1678 in music

1678 in music

The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*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

*Albertus Bryne - "5 dance movements"

Opera

*Johann Theile - "Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch"

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)

Deaths

*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)


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