1675 in music

Events

• Agostino Steffani is appointed court organist at Munich.
• Johann Krieger performs at Vienna, and is rewarded by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Publications

• Gaspar Sanz – ''Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Libre 2''

Classical music

• Johann Rudolph Ahle – Toccata ex Clave D
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• * Ave maris stella, H.60
• * De Profundis, H.232
• Christian Geist – Laudet Deum mea
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – 3e livre d'orgue des huit tons de l'église, organ collection
• Maria Xaveria Perucona – Sacri Concerti de Mottetti, Op.1
• Johann Christoph Pezel – Bicinia variorum instrumentorum
• Alessandro Stradella – Qual prodigio è ch'io miri, a serenata

[Opera]

• Matthew Locke – Psyche
• Giovanni Legrenzi – La divisione del mondo
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Thésée, LWV 5

Births

• July 12 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer
• August 1 – William Williams, composer
• date unknown – Louis de La Coste, composer
• probable
• *Michel de La Barre, composer
• *Giovanni Porta, opera composer
• *Tommaso Redi, composer

Deaths

• March 23 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch organist and composer
• September 5 – Carlos Patiño, composer
• October 29 – Andreas Hammerschmidt, organist and composer
• November 14 – Johannes Khuen, priest, poet and composer date unknown – Wojciech Bobowski, Polish Ottoman musician