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)