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The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière, who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him.
- December 30 – John Banister begins Europe’s first major commercial public concert series at Whitefriars in the City of London.
- Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Publications
- New Court Songs
- Thomas Salmon – Observations upon a Late Book
Classical music
- Dietrich Buxtehude – Auf stimmet die Saiten, BuxWV 116
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Messe pour les trépassés, H.2
- Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, H.3
- Messe à quatre choeurs, H.4
- Te Deum, H.145
- Symphonies pour un reposoir, H.515
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Marche
- Les folies d'Espagne
- Francesco Passarini – Compieta concertata..., Op. 3 (Bologna: Giacomo Monti)
- Heinrich Schütz – Matthäus-Passion
- Johann Sebastiani – Matthaus-Passion
Opera
- Antonio Draghi – Gl'atomi d'Epicuro
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – La estatua de Prometeo
- Antonio Masini – Achille in Siro
- Giovanni Maria Pagliardi – Caligula delirante
- Antonio Sartorio – Adelaide
Births
- January 16 – Francesco Mancini, composer (died 1737)
- March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742)
- April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749)
- May 1 – Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician (died 1719)
- June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
- September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
- November 6 – Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer (died 1738)
- December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
- date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)
Deaths
- January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
- January 15 – John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus" (born 1594)
- March 8 – Nicolaus Hasse, composer (born c. 1617)
- June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
- July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
- August 9 – José Ximénez, organist and composer (born 1601)
- September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet (born 1612)
- November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)
- December 17 – Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer
- date unknown
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (born c.1601)
- Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker (born c. 1595)
- probable – François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)
References
- Jan Clarke, "From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life after Molière". Accessed 28 February 2013
- Penny Cyclopedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1837), vol 8, p468. Accessed 28 February 2013
- Index of Poems Contained within New Court Songs 1672 Archived 2013-04-07 at archive.today. Accessed 28 February 2013
- Harry W. Gay (1975). Four French Organist-composers, 1549-1720. Memphis State University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-87870-022-6.
- Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1869). History of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. C. Scribner & Company. p. 131.
- "Denis Gaultier". ArkivMusic. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
- "Heinrich Schütz | German composer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 August 2018.