1670 in music

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

• Angelo Berardi – Sinfonie a violino solo con basso continuo Libro primo, Op. 7
• Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
• Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – O pretiosum, O salutiferum, H.245
• Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Acclamationi divote, Op.10
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Baletti pro tabula in C major for 2 trumpets, organ, strings

[Opera]

• Ludovico Busca – ''L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni''

Births

• January 24 – William Congreve, lyricist and librettist
• July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer
• July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer
• September 9 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer
• date unknown
• *Julie d'Aubigny, opera singer
• *Pompeo Cannicciari, Italian composer
• *Henry Eccles, English composer
• *John Christian Jacobi, composer
• *Turlough O'Carolan, harpist
• probable
• *Antonio Caldara, composer
• *Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer

Deaths

• April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer
• April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer
• July 18 – Giuseppe Allevi, composer
• date unknown
• *François Du Fault, composer
• *Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer