1666 in music

The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
 * King Charles II of England appoints Louis Grabu as Master of the King's Musick and a group of Italian musicians as the 'King's Italian Music'.
 * Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has lasted since 1653.
 * Antonio Stradivari makes the Ex Back violin.

Classical music

 * Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Primi frutti del giardino musicale, Op. 1 (10 trio sonatas da chiesa and five dances), published in Venice.
 * Dieterich Buxtehude
 * Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken, BuxWV 4
 * Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113
 * Johann Georg Ebeling – Morgen-Segen: Die güldne Sonne
 * John Playford -- Musick's Delight on the Cithren
 * Heinrich Schutz
 * Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
 * Johannes-Passion, SWV 481
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * Ballet des Muses, LWV 32
 * Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes, LWV 30
 * Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata a 5

Opera

 * Antonio Draghi – La Mascherata
 * Carlo Pallavicino – Demetrio
 * Antonio Sartorio – Seleuco

Births

 * January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
 * April 6 – Angelo Michele Bartolotti, composer (died c. 1682)
 * April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (died 1747)
 * April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (died 1727)
 * August 20 – Alphonse d' Eve, composer and singer (died 1727)
 * October – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (died 1734)
 * November 1 – James Sherard, apothecary and musician (died 1738)
 * November 5 – Attilio Ariosti, composer (died 1729)
 * November 25 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker (died c.1740)
 * December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)
 * date unknown
 * Carlo Francesco Cesarini, composer (died 1741)
 * Michelangelo Faggioli, composer (died 1733)
 * David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)

Deaths

 * January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist, 77
 * February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist, 77
 * May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer, 79
 * June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer, 32