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 . May 4 – André Campra begins ecclesiastical studies at the age of 17.James R. Anthony, "Campra, André", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 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 is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.
Published popular music
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 – . 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 20 – Antonio Masini, composer and conductor (born ) 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)
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