1663 in music

The year 1663 in music.

Opera

 * Antonio Cesti – La Dori Venice premiere
 * Kaspar Förster – Der lobwürdige Cadmus

Music

 * Johann Rudolf Ahle
 * Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder
 * Neugepflantzten Thüringischen Lustgarten
 * Giovanni Arrigoni—Salmi, Op. 9
 * Andreas Hammerschmidt—16 Masses
 * Bonifazio Graziani—Responsoria hebdomadæ sanctæ, Op.9
 * Giovanni Legrenzi – Sonate a due, tre, cinque, a sei stromenti. Libro 3. Op. 8
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully—Les noces de Village, LWV 19
 * John Playford -- Musick's Hand-maid
 * Johann Adam Reincken – An Wasserflüssen Babylon

Births

 * March 7 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (died 1745)
 * March 16 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (died 1743)
 * July 1 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and music theorist (died 1738)
 * September 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, composer (died 1711)
 * November 14 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, teacher of Handel (died 1712)
 * date unknown
 * Andrea Adami da Bolsena, papal choirmaster (died 1742)
 * Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1754)
 * Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, composer (died 1722)

Deaths

 * March 20 – Biagio Marini, violinist and composer (born 1594)
 * July 2 – Thomas Selle, composer (born 1599)
 * July 24 – Thomas Baltzar, violinist (born c.1631)
 * December 5 – Severo Bonini, composer (born 1582)
 * date unknown
 * Antoine de Beaulieu, ballet dancer
 * Nicolas Hotman, composer (born c.1610)
 * Heinrich Scheidemann, organist and composer (born c.1595)