1678 in music

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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.^[1]
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.

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)