1662 in music

Events

• July 24 – Jean-Baptiste Lully marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert.

Publications

• Richard Dering – Cantica sacra for two and three voices with basso continuo, published posthumously
• Jakob Ludwig – Partiturbuch Ludwig
• ''Courtly Masquing Ayres''

Classical music

• Thomas Barcroft – Service in G
• Philip Friederick Buchner – Plectrum musicum, Op.4
• Maurizio Cazzati – Correnti, e balletti, Op.30
• Andreas Hammerschmidt – Kirchen- und Tafel-Music
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Compiete con le lettanie & antifone, Op.7
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – ''Sacro-profanus concentus musicus''

[Opera]

• Giovanni Andrea Bontempi – Il Paride
• Francesco Cavalli – ''Ercole amante''

Births

• February 5 – Giuseppe Vignola, Italian composer and musician
• August 28 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, composer and painter
• August 28 – Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, noblewoman and composer
• December 17 – Samuel Wesley I, lyricist
• date unknown
• *Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, composer
• *Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris
• probable – Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, composer, cellist and trombone player

Deaths

• January 26 – Marco Marazzoli, Italian composer of cantatas
• February – Giuseppe Zamponi, organist and composer
• February 23 – Johann Crüger, composer
• April 23 – William Young, composer
• April 27 – Davis Mell, English violinist
• May 7 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, singer, organist, and composer
• May 18 – Adam Billaut, French carpenter, poet and singer
• July 1 – Simon Ives, English organist and court composer
• July 7 – Andreas Düben, organist and composer
• September 7 – Marco Scacchi, composer and music writer
• October 21 – Henry Lawes, composer
• date unknown
• *Galeazzo Sabbatini, composer and music theorist