1672 in music

Events

• March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière, who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him.
• Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
• John Banister organizes Europe’s first major public concert series at Whitefriars in London.

  Published popular music

• New Court Songs

  Classical music

• Dietrich Buxtehude – Auf stimmet die Saiten, BuxWV 116
• Marc-Antonie 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

  [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
• June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer
• September 8 – Nicolas de Grigny, organist
• December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer
• date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer

  Deaths

• January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer
• June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer
• July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer
• 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