1672 in music

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The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.

Events

March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière,^[1] 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.^[2]

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)
June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
date unknown
- Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)
- Giuseppe Tartini, italian composer (died 1770)

January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)^[4]
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)