1660 in music

Events

• Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at Helsingør in Denmark.
• Pelham Humphrey and John Blow become members of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

• Johann Crüger – Musicae Practicae
• Nicolas Fleury – Methode pour apprendre facilement a toucher le theorbe sur la basse-continuë
• Tommaso Marchetti – ''Intavolatura della chitarra spagnola''

Classical music

• Johann Rudolf Ahle – Erstes Zehn Neuer Geistlicher Arien
• Christoph Bernhard – Fürchtet euch nicht
• Samuel Capricornus – Jubilus Bernhardi
• Maurizio Cazzati – Trattenimenti per camera, Op.22
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Sentimenti devoti, Op.6
• Matthew Locke – Consort of Four Parts
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli
• *Sonate a violino solo, per chiesa e camera, Op. 3
• *Sonate a violino solo, per chiesa e camera, Op. 4
• Marco Uccellini
• *Ozio Regio, Op.7
• *Sinfonie Boscarecie, Op. 8
• Bauyn Manuscript

[Opera]

• Antonio Bertali – La magia delusa
• Francesco Cavalli – Xerxès
• Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Celos aun del aire matan
• Francesco Manelli – La filo
• Francesco Rossi – L'Arianna
• Giuseppe Tricarico – L'Oronie
• Filippo Vismarri – L'Orontea
• Pietro Andrea Ziani – ''L'Antigona delusa da Alceste''

Births

• April 6 – Johann Kuhnau, organist and composer
• April 19 – Sebastián Durón, composer of stage music
• May 2 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer
• August 20 – Mathieu Lanes, composer and harpsichordist
• December 4 – André Campra, French composer
• date unknown
• *Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Italian composer and nun
• *Johann Joseph Fux, composer

Deaths

• March 2 – Friederich Stellwagen, organ builder
• date unknown
• *Johann Klemm, German organist and composer
• *Johannes Praetorius, organist and composer