1670 in music

The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
 * October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.

Publications

 * Angelo Berardi – Discorsi musicali

Classical music

 * Angelo Berardi – Sinfonie a violino solo con basso continuo Libro primo, Op. 7
 * Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
 * Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier – O pretiosum, O salutiferum, H.245
 * Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
 * Giovanni Legrenzi – Acclamationi divote, Op.10
 * Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Baletti pro tabula in C major for 2 trumpets, organ, strings (CZ-KRa  A 885)

Opera

 * Ludovico Busca – L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni

Births

 * January 24 – William Congreve, lyricist and librettist (died 1729)
 * July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
 * July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
 * September 9 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer (died 1699)
 * date unknown
 * Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
 * Pompeo Cannicciari, Italian composer (died 1744)
 * Henry Eccles, English composer (died 1742)
 * John Christian Jacobi, composer (died 1750)
 * Turlough O'Carolan, harpist (died 1738)
 * probable
 * Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
 * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)

Deaths

 * April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (born 1611)
 * April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer (born c.1590)
 * July 18 – Giuseppe Allevi, composer (born c. 1603)
 * date unknown
 * François Du Fault, composer
 * Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)