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,^[1] who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him.
• Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.^[2]
• John Banister organizes Europe’s first major public concert series at Whitefriars in London.

Published popular music

• New Court Songs^[3]

Classical music

• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Marche

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 (died 1737)
• March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742)
• April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749)
• June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
• September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
• December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
• date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)

Deaths

• January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
• June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
• July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
• November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)^[4]
• December 17 – Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer
• date unknown
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (born c.1601)
  • Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker (born c. 1595)
• probable – François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)

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