1670 in music

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The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
• October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.

Publications

• Angelo Berardi – Discorsi musicali

Classical music

• Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
• Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
• Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux

Opera

• Ludovico Busca – L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni

Births

• July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
• July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
• date unknown
  • Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
  • Turlough O'Carolan, harpist and composer (died 1738)
• probable
  • Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)

Deaths

• April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (b. 1611)
• date unknown
  • François Du Fault, composer
  • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)
  • Loreto Vittori, Italian composer (born c.1590)