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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 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.

[edit] Published popular music

[edit] Classical music

• Dieterich Buxtehude - Mit Fried und Freud and Klag-Lied: Muss der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings (Mit Fried und Freud composed in 1671, but published in 1674)
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský - Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
• Ken^{[citation needed]} - "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)

[edit] Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Alceste

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
• July 17 - Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
• probable - Jeremiah Clarke, composer (died 1707)

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
• February 24 - Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
• July 14 - Pelham Humphrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
• date unknown - Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)