1671 in music

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The year 1671 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Opening of the Paris Opera.
• Philippe Quinault, Molière and Pierre Corneille, collaborate with Jean-Baptiste Lully on a court entertainment.
• Arcangelo Corelli settles in Rome after spending four years studying violin in Bologna.
• Maurizio Cazzati is dismissed from his post as Maestro di Cappella in San Petronio, Bologna, as a result of controversy over his alleged failure to enforce the rules of counterpoint, and returns to Mantua where he spends the rest of his career as Maestro di Cappella da Camera to Duchess Isabella.
• Ignazio Albertini arrives in Vienna with a letter of recommendation from Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Johann Georg Ahle – Neues Zehn Geistlicher Arien
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Op. 8, a collection of sonatas

Opera

• Robert Cambert – Pomone
• Antonio Pietro Degli – L'inganno fortunato
• Antonio Draghi – L'avidità di Mida
• Domenico Freschi & Gasparo Sartorio – Iphide greca

Births

• February 19 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
• June 8 – Tomaso Albinoni, composer (died 1751)
• December 1 – Francesco Stradivari, violin-maker, son of Antonio Stradivari
• date unknown – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer

Deaths