1674 in music
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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Johannes VoorhoutJohannes VoorhoutJohannes Voorhout was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Voorhout was the son of the Amsterdam clock maker Cornelis Voorhout. Seeing that his son was beter suited to drawing than the technical aspects of watch making, he apprenticed him to Constantijn Verhout in Gouda...
paints the only known portrait of Dieterich BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
. - Giovanni Paolo ColonnaGiovanni Paolo ColonnaGiovanni Paolo Colonna was an Italian musician and composer.-Biography:Colonna was born in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. He was a pupil of Filippuzzi in his native city, and of Abbatini and Benevoli in Rome, where for a time he held the post of organist at S. Apollinare...
becomes chapelmaster at Bologna. - , by Robert CambertRobert CambertRobert Cambert was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French.Born in Paris in 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières, His first position was as organist at the church of St. Honor in Paris...
, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.
Classical music
- Dieterich BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
– Mit Fried und Freud and Klag-Lied: Muss der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings (Mit Fried und Freud composed in 1671, but published in 1674) - Pavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef Vejvanovský Czech composer and trumpeter. Contemporary and associate of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.Some notable works by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský:...
– Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season) - Bishop Thomas KenThomas KenThomas Ken was an English cleric who was considered the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology.-Early life:...
– "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
Births
- January 9 – Reinhard KeiserReinhard KeiserReinhard Keiser was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann , but his work was largely forgotten for many...
, opera composer (died 1739) - July 11 – Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748) - September 29 - Jacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin Hotteterre , also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers.-Biography:Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was born in Paris, the son of Martin...
, composer (died 1763) - November - Pierre DumagePierre DumagePierre Dumage was a French Baroque organist and composer. His first music teacher was most likely his father, organist of the Beauvais Cathedral. At some point during his youth Dumage moved to Paris and studied under Louis Marchand...
, organist and composer (died 1751) - probable – Jeremiah ClarkeJeremiah ClarkeJeremiah Clarke was an English baroque composer and organist.Thought to have been born in London around 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal...
, composer (died 1707)
Deaths
- January 12 – Giacomo CarissimiGiacomo CarissimiGiacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music.-Biography:...
, composer (born 1605) - February 22 - John WilsonJohn Wilson (composer)John Wilson , was an English composer, lutenist and teacher. Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist. He received the degree of D.Mus from Oxford in 1644,...
, theatre composer (born 1595) - February 24 – Matthias WeckmannMatthias WeckmannMatthias Weckmann was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla and died in Hamburg.- Life :...
, composer (born c.1616) - July 14 – Pelham HumfreyPelham HumfreyPelham Humfrey was the first to prominence of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration....
, English composer and singer (born 1647) - date unknown – Francisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco López Capillas was a Mexican composer born in Mexico City.He was chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral from 21 April 1654, until his death. He was the most prolific composer of Baroque masses in Mexico....
, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)