See also: 1672 in music, other events of 1673, 1674 in music and the list of years in music. Events January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Events

• John Blow becomes organist of Westminster Abbey.
• Agostino Steffani begins his studies in Rome under Ercole Bernabei.
• Johann Michael Bach becomes organist and town clerk of Gehren.
• Robert Cambert arrives in Britain.
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini publishes his treatise, Musico prattico.
• Henry Purcell is apprenticed to the organist John Hingeston.

John Blow (1649 - October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist. ... The Abbeys western façade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Agostino Steffani (July 25, 1653-February 12, 1728), an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer, was born at Castelfranco. ... Johann Michael Bach (August 9, 1648 - May, 1694) was a German composer of the Baroque period. ... Robert Cambert:1628-1677), was a French composer principally of opera. ... Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (IPA: [1][2]; September 10, 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of Englands greatest composers — indeed, he has often been called Englands finest native composer. ...

Published popular music

Classical music

• Giovanni Legrenzi - Violin Duo and continuo

Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) was an Italian Baroque composer and organist. ...

Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Cadmus
• Pietro Andrea Ziani - Marcello in Siracuse

Sydney Opera House: one of the worlds most recognizable opera houses and landmarks Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the... Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632–March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. ...

Births

• date unknown - Johannes Kelpius, "the first Pennsylvanian composer"

Johannes Kelpius (1673-1708), a German Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness that the end of the world would occur in 1694. ...

Deaths

• date unknown - Lemme Rossi, music theorist