1665 in music

The year 1665 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * May 27 – John Loosemore completes the construction of the organ at Exeter Cathedral.
 * Francesco Cavalli becomes first organist of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Bands formed

 * Band of the Grenadier Guards, under the terms of a Royal Warrant issued the previous year.

Publications

 * Christoph Bernhard – Geistliche Harmonien, Op.1
 * Wojciech Bobowski – Mezmurlar, a collection of psalms in Turkish
 * Giovanni Felice Sances – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
 * Christopher Simpson – The Principles of Practical Musick

Classical music

 * John Blow – I will always give thanks
 * Maurizio Cazzati
 * Sonate a 2, 3, 4 e 5 con alcune per tromba, Op.35
 * Messa e salmi a 5 voci con 4 istromenti, Op.36
 * Jean Baptiste Lully – La naissance de Vénus, LWV 27 (ballet, premiered Jan. 26 in Paris)
 * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église, the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the French Baroque organ school

Opera

 * Antonio Bertali – L'Alcindo
 * Andrea Mattioli – Ciro

Births

 * February 21 (baptized) – Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, Austrian Baroque composer (died 1742)
 * March 17 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (died 1729)
 * date unknown
 * Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, composer (died 1742)
 * Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (died 1697)
 * Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (died 1712)
 * José de Torres, composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher (died 1738)
 * probable – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, luthier (died 1716)

Deaths

 * January 21 – Domenico Mazzochi, Italian composer (born 1592)
 * November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, Portuguese court composer (born 1610)
 * December 10 – Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist and composer (born c.1594)