1660 in music
# 1660 in music

The year 1660 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at Helsingør in Denmark.
* Pelham Humphrey and John Blow become members of the Chapel Royal.

## Publications

* Johann Crüger – Musicae Practicae
* Nicolas Fleury – Methode pour apprendre facilement a toucher le theorbe sur la basse-continuë
* Tommaso Marchetti – Intavolatura della chitarra spagnola

## Classical music

* Johann Rudolf Ahle – Erstes Zehn Neuer Geistlicher Arien
* Christoph Bernhard – Fürchtet euch nicht
* Samuel Capricornus – Jubilus Bernhardi
* Maurizio Cazzati – Trattenimenti per camera, Op.22
* Giovanni Legrenzi – Sentimenti devoti, Op.6
* Matthew Locke – Consort of Four Parts
* Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)
   * Sonate a violino solo, per chiesa e camera, Op. 3 (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner)
   * Sonate a violino solo, per chiesa e camera, Op. 4 (Innsbruck: Michael Wagner)
* Marco Uccellini
   * Ozio Regio, Op.7
   * Sinfonie Boscarecie, Op. 8
* Bauyn Manuscript

## Opera

* Antonio Bertali – La magia delusa
* Francesco Cavalli – Xerxès
* Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Celos aun del aire matan
* Francesco Manelli – La filo
* Francesco Rossi – L'Arianna
* Giuseppe Tricarico – L'Oronie
* Filippo Vismarri – L'Orontea
* Pietro Andrea Ziani – L'Antigona delusa da Alceste

## Births

* April 6 – Johann Kuhnau, organist and composer (died 1722)
* April 19 – Sebastián Durón, composer of stage music (died 1716)
* May 2 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (died 1725)
* August 20 – Mathieu Lanes, composer and harpsichordist (died 1725)
* December 4 (baptized) – André Campra, French composer (died 1744)
* date unknown
   * Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Italian composer and nun (died c. 1710)
   * Johann Joseph Fux, composer (died 1741)

## Deaths

* March 2 (buried) – Friederich Stellwagen, organ builder (born 1603)
* date unknown
   * Johann Klemm, German organist and composer (born c.1593)
   * Johannes Praetorius, organist and composer (born 1595)
