1661 in music

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The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • April 19 – Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan.
  • November 4 – Samuel Pepys' diary records a visit to the opera.
  • King Louis XIV of France creates the Académie Royale de Danse.
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully becomes a French subject.
  • First public opera performances in Antwerp, on the stage of the Schouwburgh van de Oude Voetboog.

Classical music

  • Thomas Gobert – Pseaume XVIII
  • Matthew Locke – Flatt Consort
  • Heinrich Schütz – Becker Psalter (revised and enlarged edition)
  • Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 1

Opera

  • Antonio Bertali – Il Ciro crescente
  • Jacopo Melani – Ercole in Tebe
  • Antonio Sartorio – Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro

Births

  • February – Henri Desmarets, composer (died 1741)
  • February 5 – Barbara Kluntz, composer (died 1730)
  • June 6 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (died 1756)
  • September 2 – Georg Böhm, organist and composer (died 1733)
  • November 1 – Florent Carton (Dancourt), librettist (died 1725)
  • date unknown – Francesco Gasparini, composer (died 1727)

Deaths

  • May 4 – Jean de Cambefort, composer (born 1605)
  • May 9 – Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609)
  • June 3 – Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1593)
  • August 29 – Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)
  • October – Germain Pinel, harpsichordist and composer (born c. 1600)
  • November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, composer (born 1610)
  • December 29 – Antoine Girard, librettist (born 1594)
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