1664 in music

The year 1664 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Following the disgrace of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert assumes the position of harpsichordist to Louis XIV, King of France.
 * Anthoni van Noordt becomes organist at the Nieuwe Kerk

Classical music

 * Giovanni Legrenzi – 16 Sonatas, Op.8
 * Heinrich Schütz – Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio)
 * Bernardo Storace – Selva di varie compositioni
 * Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Sonatae unarum fidium, seu a violino solo
 * Barbara Strozzi – Arie, Op. 8

Opera

 * Antonio Maria Abbatini – Ione
 * Antonio Bertali – Pazzo amor

Births

 * January 17 – Antonio Salvi, Italian physician, court poet and librettist (died 1724)
 * February 23 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, organist and composer (died 1710)
 * March – Georg Österreich, composer (died 1735)
 * March 14 – Silvio Stampiglia, librettist (died 1725)
 * June 28 – Nicolas Bernier, composer (died 1734)
 * August 6 – Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer (d. 1728)
 * September 9 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (died 1716)
 * November 9 – Johann Speth, organist and composer (died c. 1720)
 * date unknown – Daniel Purcell, composer (died 1717)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Charles Racquet, organist (born c. 1598)
 * July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, librettist and playwright (born 1616)
 * date unknown – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, composer (born c.1590)