1670 in music
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The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
- October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.
Publications
- Angelo Berardi – Discorsi musicali
Classical music
- Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
- Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
Opera
- Ludovico Busca – L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni
Births
- July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
- July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
- date unknown
- Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
- Turlough O'Carolan, harpist and composer (died 1738)
- probable
- Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)
Deaths
- April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (born 1611)
- April 23 - Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer (born c.1590)
- date unknown
- François Du Fault, composer
- Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)
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