1675 in music explained

The year 1675 in music involved some significant events.

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 (died 1742)
• August 1 – William Williams, composer (died 1701)
• date unknown – Louis de La Coste, composer (died 1750)
• probable
  • Michel de La Barre, composer (died 1745)
  • Giovanni Porta, opera composer (died 1755)
  • Tommaso Redi, composer

Deaths

• March 23 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch organist and composer (born 1619)
• September 5 – Carlos Patiño, composer (born 1600)
• October 29 – Andreas Hammerschmidt, organist and composer (born c.1611)
• November 14 – Johannes Khuen, priest, poet and composer (born 1606)
• date unknown – Wojciech Bobowski, Polish Ottoman musician (born 1610)