1666 in music

The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
• King Charles II of England appoints Louis Grabu as Master of the King's Musick and a group of Italian musicians as the 'King's Italian Music'.
• Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has lasted since 1653.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Ex Back violin.

Classical music

• Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Primi frutti del giardino musicale, Op. 1 (10 trio sonatas da chiesa and five dances), published in Venice.
• Dieterich Buxtehude
  • Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken, BuxWV 4
  • Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113
• Johann Georg Ebeling – Morgen-Segen: Die güldne Sonne
• John Playford -- Musick's Delight on the Cithren
• Heinrich Schutz
  • Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
  • Johannes-Passion, SWV 481
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Ballet des Muses, LWV 32
  • Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes, LWV 30
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata a 5

Opera

• Antonio Draghi – La Mascherata
• Carlo Pallavicino – Demetrio
• Antonio Sartorio – Seleuco

Births

• January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
• April 6 – Angelo Michele Bartolotti, composer (died c. 1682)^[1]
• April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (died 1747)
• April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (died 1727)
• August 20 – Alphonse d' Eve, composer and singer (died 1727)
• October – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (died 1734)
• November 1 – James Sherard, apothecary and musician (died 1738)
• November 5 – Attilio Ariosti, composer (died 1729)
• November 25 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker (died c.1740)^[2]
• December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)^{[citation needed]}
• date unknown
  • Carlo Francesco Cesarini, composer (died 1741)
  • Michelangelo Faggioli, composer (died 1733)
  • David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)

Deaths

• January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist, 77^[3]
• February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist, 77^[4]
• May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer, 79^[5]
• June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer, 32^[6]