Overview of the events of 1668 in music
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The year 1668 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
- Joseph Haines joins the troupe of performers at Hatton Garden, London.
- Antonio Draghi is appointed to the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.
Publications
- Dietrich Becker – Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte
- Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.
- Thomas Tomkins' Musica Deo Sacra is published posthumously by his son, Nathaniel.
- Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 2
Classical music
- Christoph Bernhard -- Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein (and other portions of Geistlicher Harmonien Erster Teil)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber -- Sonata à 7
- Dietrich Buxtehude -- All solch dein Güt wir preisen, BuxWV 3
- Francesco Cavalli -- O bone Jesu
- Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 5, Op.46
- Henry DuMont -- Motets à deux voix, avec la basse-continue
- Lambert Pietkin -- Sacri concentus, Op. 3
- Johann Schmelzer - Harmonia à 5
Opera
- Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro (premiered July 12 or 14 in Vienna)
- Antonio Draghi – Achille riconsciuto
- Jacopo Melani – Il Girello
- Jean-Baptist Lully
- Le carnaval, LWV 36
- George Dandin
- La Grotte de Versailles
- Francesco Feo -- Andromaca
Births
- January 8 – Jean Gilles, composer (died 1705)
- June 19 – Georg von Bertouch, composer (died 1743)
- September 13 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (died 1767)
- October 29 – Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (died 1704)
- November 10 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733)
- November 27 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (died 1750)
- December 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian librettist (died 1750)
- date unknown – John Eccles, English composer (died 1735)
Deaths
- March 7 – Odoardo Ceccarelli, Italian singer and composer (born c. 1600)
- April 7 – Sir William Davenant, English poet and playwright, author of The Siege of Rhodes, considered the first opera in English (born 1606)
- October 23 – Giovanni Rovetta, Venetian composer (born 1596)
- August 9 – Jacob Balde, German New Latin poet and lyricist (born 1604)
- December 2 – Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (born 1621)
- date unknown
- Nicolas Métru, French organist, violist, and composer (born 1610)
- Francesco Sbarra, dramatist, poet, and librettist (born 1611)
References
- Eisel, John C. (September 2014). "Stedman, Fabian (bap. 1640, d. 1713)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68907. Retrieved 2015-04-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Hyperion Records: John Eccles. Accessed 21 February 2013