title: 1678 in music
text: # 1678 in music
  
  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 Adam und Eva.
  * May 4 – André Campra begins ecclesiastical studies at the age of 17.
  * 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 Teatro Grimani is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.
  
  ## 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 – Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch.
  * 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 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)
  