1666 in music
The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
- King Charles II of England appoints Louis Grabu as Master of the King's Musick and a group of Italian musicians as the 'King's Italian Music'.
- Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has lasted since 1653.
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Ex Back violin.
Classical music
- Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Primi frutti del giardino musicale, Op. 1, published in Venice.
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- *Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken, BuxWV 4
- *Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113
- Johann Georg Ebeling – Morgen-Segen: Die güldne Sonne
- John Playford -- Musick's Delight on the Cithren
- Heinrich Schutz
- *Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
- *Johannes-Passion, SWV 481
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- *Ballet des Muses, LWV 32
- *Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes, LWV 30
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata a 5
[Opera]
- Antonio Draghi – La Mascherata
- Carlo Pallavicino – Demetrio
- Antonio Sartorio – ''Seleuco''
Births
- January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer
- April 6 – Angelo Michele Bartolotti, composer
- April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer
- April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer
- August 20 – Alphonse d' Eve, composer and singer
- October – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer
- November 1 – James Sherard, apothecary and musician
- November 5 – Attilio Ariosti, composer
- November 25 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker
- December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer
- date unknown
- *Carlo Francesco Cesarini, composer
- *Michelangelo Faggioli, composer
- *David Tecchler, luthier
Deaths
- January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist, 77
- February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist, 77
- May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer, 79
- June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer, 32