1678 in music
# 1678 in music

The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* January 2 – Public opera in Hamburg begins when the Oper am Gänsemarkt is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Theile's biblical Singspiel Adam und Eva.
* May 4 – André Campra begins ecclesiastical studies at the age of 17.
* June 19 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers is appointed to join Nicolas Lebègue, Jacques Thomelin and Jean Buterne as an organists of the Chapelle Royale at the French court.
* John Blow becomes a doctor of music.
* Seventeen-year-old Giacomo Antonio Perti composes his first opera.
* The Teatro Grimani is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.

## Classical music

* Albertus Bryne – 5 dance movements
* Henry Purcell – 3 Parts upon a Ground, Z.731
* Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani – Capricci armonici da chiesa e da camera, Op.4
* Bernardo Pasquini – Sant'Agnese
* Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Il transito di S. Giuseppe

## Opera

* Jean-Baptiste Lully
   * Psyche
   * Bellérophon, LWV 57
* Johann Theile – Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch.
* Carlo Pallavicino – Il Vespasiano
* Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Astianatte
* La Despina, Agnelli, Milano 1678, performed in Milan.

## Births

* March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, composer (died 1741)
* July 6 – Nicola Francesco Haym, opera librettist and composer (died 1727)
* December 30 – William Croft, organist and composer (died 1727)
* probable – Manuel de Zumaya, composer (died 1755)

## Deaths

* March – Jacques Hardel, harpsichordist and composer
* August 5 – Juan García de Zéspedes, composer (born 1619)
* September 28 – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (born 1616)
* November 18 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, violinist and composer
* date unknown
   * Leonora Duarte, composer
   * John Jenkins, composer (born 1592)
* probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Benedictine nun and composer (born 1602)
