1666 in music
# 1666 in music

The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
* King Charles II of England appoints Louis Grabu as Master of the King's Musick and a group of Italian musicians as the 'King's Italian Music'.
* Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has lasted since 1653.
* Antonio Stradivari makes the Ex Back violin.

## Classical music

* Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Primi frutti del giardino musicale, Op. 1 (10 trio sonatas da chiesa and five dances), published in Venice.
* Dieterich Buxtehude
   * Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken, BuxWV 4
   * Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113
* Johann Georg Ebeling – Morgen-Segen: Die güldne Sonne
* John Playford -- Musick's Delight on the Cithren
* Heinrich Schutz
   * Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
   * Johannes-Passion, SWV 481
* Jean-Baptiste Lully
   * Ballet des Muses, LWV 32
   * Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes, LWV 30
* Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata a 5

## Opera

* Antonio Draghi – La Mascherata
* Carlo Pallavicino – Demetrio
* Antonio Sartorio – Seleuco

## Births

* January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
* April 6 – Angelo Michele Bartolotti, composer (died c. 1682)
* April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (died 1747)
* April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (died 1727)
* August 20 – Alphonse d' Eve, composer and singer (died 1727)
* October – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (died 1734)
* November 1 – James Sherard, apothecary and musician (died 1738)
* November 5 – Attilio Ariosti, composer (died 1729)
* November 25 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker (died c.1740)
* December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)
* date unknown
   * Carlo Francesco Cesarini, composer (died 1741)
   * Michelangelo Faggioli, composer (died 1733)
   * David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)

## Deaths

* January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist, 77
* February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist, 77
* May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer, 79
* June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer, 32
