1668 in music
The year 1668 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
- Joseph Haines joins the troupe of performers at Hatton Garden, London.
- Antonio Draghi is appointed to the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.
Publications
- Dietrich Becker – Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte
- Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.
- Thomas Tomkins' Musica Deo Sacra is published posthumously by his son, Nathaniel.
- Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 2
Classical music
- Christoph Bernhard -- Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber -- Sonata à 7
- Dietrich Buxtehude -- All solch dein Güt wir preisen, BuxWV 3
- Francesco Cavalli -- O bone Jesu
- Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 5, Op.46
- Henry DuMont -- Motets à deux voix, avec la basse-continue
- Lambert Pietkin -- Sacri concentus, Op. 3
- Johann Schmelzer - ''Harmonia à 5''
[Opera]
- Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro
- Antonio Draghi – Achille riconsciuto
- Jacopo Melani – Il Girello
- Jean-Baptist Lully
- *Le carnaval, LWV 36
- *George Dandin
- *La Grotte de Versailles
- Francesco Feo -- ''Andromaca''
Births
- January 8 – Jean Gilles, composer
- June 19 – Georg von Bertouch, composer
- September 13 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer
- October 29 – Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist
- November 10 – François Couperin, French organist and composer
- November 27 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon
- December 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian librettist
- date unknown – John Eccles, English composer
Deaths
- March 7 – Odoardo Ceccarelli, Italian singer and composer
- April 7 – Sir William Davenant, English poet and playwright, author of The Siege of Rhodes, considered the first opera in English
- October 23 – Giovanni Rovetta, Venetian composer
- August 9 – Jacob Balde, German New Latin poet and lyricist
- December 2 – Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist
- date unknown
- *Nicolas Métru, French organist, violist, and composer
- *Francesco Sbarra, dramatist, poet, and librettist