1672 in music

The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière, who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him.
 * December 30 – John Banister begins Europe’s first major commercial public concert series at Whitefriars in the City of London.
 * Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Publications

 * New Court Songs
 * Thomas Salmon – Observations upon a Late Book

Classical music

 * Dietrich Buxtehude – Auf stimmet die Saiten, BuxWV 116
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Messe pour les trépassés, H.2
 * Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, H.3
 * Messe à quatre choeurs, H.4
 * Te Deum, H.145
 * Symphonies pour un reposoir, H.515
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * Marche
 * Les folies d'Espagne
 * Francesco Passarini – Compieta concertata..., Op. 3 (Bologna: Giacomo Monti)
 * Heinrich Schütz – Matthäus-Passion
 * Johann Sebastiani – Matthaus-Passion

Opera

 * Antonio Draghi – Gl'atomi d'Epicuro
 * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – La estatua de Prometeo
 * Antonio Masini – Achille in Siro
 * Giovanni Maria Pagliardi – Caligula delirante
 * Antonio Sartorio – Adelaide

Births

 * January 16 – Francesco Mancini, composer (died 1737)
 * March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742)
 * April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749)
 * May 1 – Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician (died 1719)
 * June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
 * September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
 * November 6 – Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer (died 1738)
 * December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
 * date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)

Deaths

 * January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
 * January 15 – John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus" (born 1594)
 * March 8 – Nicolaus Hasse, composer (born c. 1617)
 * June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
 * July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
 * August 9 – José Ximénez, organist and composer (born 1601)
 * September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet (born 1612)
 * November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)
 * December 17 – Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer
 * date unknown
 * Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (born c.1601)
 * Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker (born c. 1595)
 * probable – François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)