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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude.
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
- Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - 16 "Rosary" sonatas, never published
- Vejvanofsky (1633-1693) - "Sonata Natalis" (composed for the Christmas season)
- Ken - "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
Opera
- Jean-Baptiste Lully - Alceste
Births
- January 9 - Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
- July 17 - Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
- probable - Jeremiah Clarke, composer (died 1707)
Deaths
- January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
- February 24 - Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
- July 14 - Pelham Humphrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
- date unknown - Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)
