1674 in music
The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- April – Thomas Shadwell produces a revision of the Dryden/Davenant version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Furnished with music by John Bannister, Giovanni Battista Draghi, Pelham Humfrey, Pietro Reggio, and Matthew Locke, it became a great popular success.
- September 29 – Nicholas Staggins is appointed Master of the Kings Music
- Johann Aegidius Bach is appointed organist at the Kaufmannskirche in Erfurt
- John Blow is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal
- Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude.
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
- Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.
Classical music
- Heinrich Biber
- *Missa Christi resurgentis à 20
- *Mystery Sonatas
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- *Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfarth, published in Lübeck
- *Klag-Lied: Muß der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings
- *Drei schöne Dinge sind, BuxWV 19
- Cristofaro Caresana
- *La caccia del toro
- *La Veglia
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- * Laudate Dominum, H.159
- * Domine Dominus noster, H.163
- * Pour Ste. Anne, H.315
- Francesco Corbetta – La Guitarre Royalle
- Carolus Hacquart – Cantiones sacrae, Op.1
- Bishop Thomas Ken – "Morning Hymn"
- Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – Mottetto Sitientes venite
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata Natalis
- Gaspar Sanz – ''Instrucción de Música''
[Opera]
- Jean-Baptiste Lully – ''Alceste''
Births
- January 9 – Reinhard Keiser, opera composer
- July 11 or July 16 – Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody"
- September 29 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer
- November 23 – Pierre Dumage, organist and composer
- date unknown – Ambrose Philips, poet and lyricist
- probable – Jeremiah Clarke, composer
Deaths
- January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi, composer
- February 22 – John Wilson, theatre composer
- February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, composer
- July 14 – Pelham Humfrey, English composer and singer
- October 15 – Robert Herrick, poet and lyricist
- October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, hymnist
- November 8 – John Milton, poet and lyricist
- date unknown
- *Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral