1664 in music
The year 1664 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Following the disgrace of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert assumes the position of harpsichordist to Louis XIV, King of France.
- Anthoni van Noordt becomes organist at the Nieuwe Kerk
Classical music
- Giovanni Legrenzi – 16 Sonatas, Op.8
- Heinrich Schütz – Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Bernardo Storace – Selva di varie compositioni
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Sonatae unarum fidium, seu a violino solo
- Barbara Strozzi – Arie, Op. 8
[Opera]
- Antonio Maria Abbatini – Ione
- Antonio Bertali – ''Pazzo amor''
Births
- January 17 – Antonio Salvi, Italian physician, court poet and librettist
- February 23 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, organist and composer
- March – Georg Österreich, composer
- March 14 – Silvio Stampiglia, librettist
- June 28 – Nicolas Bernier, composer
- August 6 – Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
- September 9 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer
- November 9 – Johann Speth, organist and composer
- date unknown – Daniel Purcell, composer
Deaths
- January 1 – Charles Racquet, organist
- July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, librettist and playwright
- date unknown – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, composer