1657 in music

The year 1657 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 11 – Johann Adam Reincken becomes organist of the Bergkerk at Deventer.
 * July 17 – Following the death of Tobias Michael in June, Sebastian Knüpfer is appointed Thomaskantor at Leipzig.
 * Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna.
 * King Louis XIV of France engages Étienne Richard as royal harpsichord teacher, in place of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

Popular music

 * Gaspar de Verlit – Anthology of Christmas carols

Classical music

 * Henri Dumont – Meslanges à 2, 3, 4 et 5 parties
 * Joannes Florentius a Kempis – Cantiones Natalitiae
 * Giovanni Legrenzi – Salmi a cinque
 * Heinrich Schütz
 * 12 Geistliche Gesänge, Op.13
 * Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener, SWV 432-433
 * Barbara Strozzi – Ariette a voce sola, Op.6

Opera

 * Francesco Cavalli – Artemisia
 * Michel de La Guerre – Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères (sung in 1655, but first staged as an opera in 1657)

Births

 * March 18 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, organist and composer (died 1743)
 * July 25 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (died 1714)
 * December 15 – Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (died 1726)
 * probable – Gaetano Greco, composer (died c.1728)

Deaths

 * March – John Hilton the younger, lutenist and composer (born c.1599)
 * March 26 – Jacob van Eyck, nobleman and musician (born c.1590)
 * June 26 – Tobias Michael (born 1592)
 * October 21 – Alessandro Costantini (born c. 1581)
 * October 23 – Domenico Massenzio, Italian composer (born 1586)
 * date unknown
 * Franciszek Lilius, composer (born c. 1600)
 * Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer (born 1600)