1665 in music

Events

• May 27 – John Loosemore completes the construction of the organ at Exeter Cathedral.
• Francesco Cavalli becomes first organist of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Bands formed

• Band of the Grenadier Guards, under the terms of a Royal Warrant issued the previous year.

Publications

• Christoph Bernhard – Geistliche Harmonien, Op.1
• Wojciech Bobowski – Mezmurlar, a collection of psalms in Turkish
• Giovanni Felice Sances – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
• Christopher Simpson – ''The Principles of Practical Musick''

Classical music

• John Blow – I will always give thanks
• Maurizio Cazzati
• *Sonate a 2, 3, 4 e 5 con alcune per tromba, Op.35
• *Messa e salmi a 5 voci con 4 istromenti, Op.36
• Jean Baptiste Lully – La naissance de Vénus, LWV 27
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église, the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the French Baroque organ school

[Opera]

• Antonio Bertali – L'Alcindo
• Andrea Mattioli – ''Ciro''

Births

• February 21 – Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, Austrian Baroque composer
• March 17 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer
• date unknown
• *Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, composer
• *Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer
• *Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer
• *José de Torres, composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher
• probable – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, luthier

Deaths

• January 21 – Domenico Mazzochi, Italian composer
• November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, Portuguese court composer
• December 10 – Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist and composer