1678 in music

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The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

June 19 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers is appointed to join Nicolas Lebègue, Jacques Thomelin and Jean Buterne as an organists of the Chapelle Royale at the French court.
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

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)
probable - Manuel de Zumaya, composer (died 1755)

Deaths

March - Jacques Hardel, harpsichordist and composer
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)
probable - Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Benedictine nun and composer (born 1602)