The year 1674 in music involved some significant events. Events April – Thomas Shadwell produces a revision of the Dryden/Davenant version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Furnished with music by John Bannister, Giovanni Battista Draghi, Pelham Humfrey, Pietro Reggio, and Matthew Locke, it became a great popular success. September 29 – Nicholas Staggins is appointed Master of the Kings Music Johann Aegidius Bach is appointed organist at the Kaufmannskirche in Erfurt John Blow is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude. Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna. , by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain. Published popular music Classical music Heinrich Biber Missa Christi resurgentis à 20 Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas Dieterich Buxtehude Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfarth, published in Lübeck (consisting of Mit Fried und Freud, composed 1671, and Klag-Lied) Klag-Lied: Muß der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings Drei schöne Dinge sind, BuxWV 19 Cristofaro Caresana La caccia del toro La Veglia Marc-Antoine Charpentier Laudate Dominum, H.159 Domine Dominus noster, H.163 Pour Ste. Anne, H.315 Francesco Corbetta – La Guitarre Royalle Carolus Hacquart – Cantiones sacrae, Op.1 Bishop Thomas Ken – "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2) Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – Mottetto Sitientes venite Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season) Gaspar Sanz – Instrucción de Música Opera Jean-Baptiste Lully – Alceste Births January 9 – Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739) July 11 or July 16 – Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748) September 29 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (died 1763) November 23 – Pierre Dumage, organist and composer (died 1751) date unknown – Ambrose Philips, poet and lyricist (died 1749) probable – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (suicide 1707) Deaths January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605) February 22 – John Wilson, theatre composer (born 1595) February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616) July 14 – Pelham Humfrey, English composer and singer (born 1647) October 15 – Robert Herrick, poet and lyricist (born 1591) October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, hymnist (born 1614) November 8 – John Milton, poet and lyricist (born 1608) date unknown Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608) References 17th century in music Music by year