1669 in music

Events

• February 17 – Première of Alessandro Melani's opera L'empio punito at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome. The work was commissioned by Marie Mancini.

Publications

• Luigi Battiferri – Ricercari, Op.3
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Op. 3, a collection of sonatas in canon
• Henri Dumont – Cinq messes en plain-chant
• Johann Caspar Kerll – Delectus sacrarum cantionum, 26 motets for 2–5 voices, 2 violins and basso continuo
• Henry Lawes
• *Select Ayres and Dialogues
• *The Treasury of Musick
• Samuel Capricornus
• *Continuatio theatri musici
• *Scelta musicale
• *Theatrum musicum
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi – Sonate cioè balletti, sarabande, correnti, passacagli, capricetti e una trombetta...
• Maurizio Cazzati – Varii, e diversi capricci per camera, Op. 50

Classical music

• Johann Schmelzer – Sonata a 4, ''La Carolietta''

[Opera]

• Francesco Cavalli – Coriolano
• Antonio Cesti – Genserico
• Antonio Draghi – Achille in Sciro
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41

Births

• April 6 – Johann Christopf Faber, composer, organist, and organ builder
• February 2 – Louis Marchand, organist, harpsichordist and composer
• August 24 – Alessandro Marcello, composer
• October 10 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, composer
• October 13 – Charles Desmazures, composer
• date unknown
• *Johann Samuel Beyer, composer
• *Miquel López Sebastián, composer

Deaths

• April 6 – Lars Wivallius, librettist
• April 17 – Antonio Bertali, violinist and composer
• May? – Étienne Richard, composer, organist and harpsichordist
• October 14 – Antonio Cesti, opera composer
• October 28 – Agustin Moreto y Cavana, poet
• date unknown
• *Richard Ayleward, musician and composer
• *Christopher Simpson, viola da gamba player and composer
• probable – Étienne Moulinié, composer