1672 in music
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
- 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
- March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others
- April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera
- May 1 – Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician
- June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer
- September 8 – Nicolas de Grigny, organist
- November 6 – Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer
- December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer
- date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer
Deaths
- January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer
- January 15 – John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus"
- March 8 – Nicolaus Hasse, composer
- June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer
- July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer
- August 9 – José Ximénez, organist and composer
- September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet
- November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer
- December 17 – Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer
- date unknown
- *Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer
- *Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker
- probable – François Dufault, lutenist and composer