1671 in music

The year 1671 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

March 3 – Opening of the Paris Opera, with the opera Pomone by Robert Cambert.
Philippe Quinault, Molière and Pierre Corneille, collaborate with Jean-Baptiste Lully on a court entertainment.
Arcangelo Corelli settles in Rome after spending four years studying violin in Bologna.
Maurizio Cazzati is dismissed from his post as Maestro di Cappella in San Petronio, Bologna, as a result of controversy over his alleged failure to enforce the rules of counterpoint, and returns to Mantua where he spends the rest of his career as Maestro di Cappella da Camera to Duchess Isabella.
Ignazio Albertini arrives in Vienna with a letter of recommendation from Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

Johann Georg Ahle – Neues Zehn Geistlicher Arien
Cristofaro Caresana – Sonata à 8
The Notebook of Anna Maria van Eyl, including compositions by Gisbert Steenwick, Johann Caspar Kerll, Heinrich Scheidemann.
Denis Gaultier – Pièces de Luth sur trois différents modes nouveaux
Andreas Hammerschmidt – Sechsstimmige Fest- und Zeit-Andachten
Giovanni Legrenzi – Op. 8, a collection of sonatas
Guilliaume-Gabriel Nivers – Antiphonarium romanum
Francesco Passarini
*Salmi concertati...
*Antifone della Beata Vergini a voce sola...
Heinrich Schütz – Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 494

February 19 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
April 18 – Johann Burchard Freystein, hymn-writer
May 12 – Erdmann Neumeister, hymnologist and priest
May 21 – Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja, organist, harpsichordist, composer and organ builder
June 8 – Tomaso Albinoni, composer
June 16 – Johann Christoph Bach, musician and composer
June 30 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, missionary, musician and composer
September – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba virtuoso and composer
September 7 – Antoine Danchet, French playwright and opera librettist
October 17 – Agostino Piovene, Venetian poet and opera librettist
probable – Robert Valentine, recorder player and composer