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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude.
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
• Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - 16 "Rosary" sonatas, never published
• Vejvanofsky (1633-1693) - "Sonata Natalis" (composed for the Christmas season)
• Ken - "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)

Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Alceste

Births

• January 9 - Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
• July 17 - Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
• probable - Jeremiah Clarke, composer (died 1707)

Deaths

• January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
• February 24 - Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
• July 14 - Pelham Humphrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
• date unknown - Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)