1663 in music

[Opera]

• Antonio Cesti – La Dori Venice premiere
• Kaspar Förster – ''Der lobwürdige Cadmus''

Music

• Johann Rudolf Ahle
• * Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder
• * Neugepflantzten Thüringischen Lustgarten
• Giovanni Arrigoni—Salmi, Op. 9
• Andreas Hammerschmidt—16 Masses
• Bonifazio Graziani—Responsoria hebdomadæ sanctæ, Op.9
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Sonate a due, tre, cinque, a sei stromenti. Libro 3. Op. 8
• Jean-Baptiste Lully—Les noces de Village, LWV 19
• John Playford -- Musick's Hand-maid
• Johann Adam Reincken – ''An Wasserflüssen Babylon''

Births

• March 7 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer
• March 16 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer
• July 1 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and music theorist
• September 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, composer
• November 14 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, teacher of Handel
• date unknown
• *Andrea Adami da Bolsena, papal choirmaster
• *Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer
• *Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, composer

Deaths

• March 20 – Biagio Marini, violinist and composer
• July 2 – Thomas Selle, composer
• July 24 – Thomas Baltzar, violinist
• December 5 – Severo Bonini, composer
• date unknown
• *Antoine de Beaulieu, ballet dancer
• *Nicolas Hotman, composer
• *Heinrich Scheidemann, organist and composer