1665 in music
# 1665 in music

The year 1665 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* May 27 – John Loosemore completes the construction of the organ at Exeter Cathedral.
* Francesco Cavalli becomes first organist of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

## Bands formed

* Band of the Grenadier Guards, under the terms of a Royal Warrant issued the previous year.

## Publications

* Christoph Bernhard – Geistliche Harmonien, Op.1
* Wojciech Bobowski – Mezmurlar, a collection of psalms in Turkish
* Giovanni Felice Sances – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
* Christopher Simpson – The Principles of Practical Musick

## Classical music

* John Blow – I will always give thanks
* Maurizio Cazzati
   * Sonate a 2, 3, 4 e 5 con alcune per tromba, Op.35
   * Messa e salmi a 5 voci con 4 istromenti, Op.36
* Jean Baptiste Lully – La naissance de Vénus, LWV 27 (ballet, premiered Jan. 26 in Paris)
* Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église, the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the French Baroque organ school

## Opera

* Antonio Bertali – L'Alcindo
* Andrea Mattioli – Ciro

## Births

* February 21 (baptized) – Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, Austrian Baroque composer (died 1742)
* March 17 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (died 1729)
* date unknown
   * Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, composer (died 1742)
   * Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (died 1697)
   * Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (died 1712)
   * José de Torres, composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher (died 1738)
* probable – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, luthier (died 1716)

## Deaths

* January 21 – Domenico Mazzochi, Italian composer (born 1592)
* November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, Portuguese court composer (born 1610)
* December 10 – Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist and composer (born c.1594)
