1661 in music
# 1661 in music

The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* April 19 – Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan.
* November 4 – Samuel Pepys' diary records a visit to the opera.
* King Louis XIV of France creates the Académie Royale de Danse.
* Jean-Baptiste Lully becomes a French subject.
* First public opera performances in Antwerp, on the stage of the Schouwburgh van de Oude Voetboog.

## Classical music

* Thomas Gobert – Pseaume XVIII
* Matthew Locke – Flatt Consort
* Heinrich Schütz – Becker Psalter (revised and enlarged edition)
* Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 1

## Opera

* Antonio Bertali – Il Ciro crescente
* Jacopo Melani – Ercole in Tebe
* Antonio Sartorio – Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro

## Births

* February – Henri Desmarets, composer (died 1741)
* February 5 – Barbara Kluntz, composer (died 1730)
* June 6 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (died 1756)
* September 2 – Georg Böhm, organist and composer (died 1733)
* November 1 – Florent Carton (Dancourt), librettist (died 1725)
* date unknown – Francesco Gasparini, composer (died 1727)

## Deaths

* May 4 – Jean de Cambefort, composer (born 1605)
* May 9 – Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609)
* June 3 – Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1593)
* August 29 – Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)
* October – Germain Pinel, harpsichordist and composer (born c. 1600)
* November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, composer (born 1610)
* December 29 – Antoine Girard, librettist (born 1594)
