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.
• , by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Dieterich Buxtehude Mit Fried und Freud and Klag-Lied: Muss der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings (Mit Fried und Freud composed in 1671, but published in 1674)
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovsk Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
• Bishop Thomas Ken "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)

Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Lully Alceste

Births

• January 9 Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
• July 11 Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
• September 29 - Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (died 1763)
• November - Pierre Dumage, organist and composer (died 1751)
• probable Jeremiah Clarke, composer (died 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)
• date unknown Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)

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