1667 in music

The year 1667 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * January 27 – First performance at the Opernhaus am Taschenberg, the court opera house of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden designed by Wolf Caspar von Klengel, Giovanni Andrea Moneglia's Il teseo.
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier arrives in Rome.
 * Antonio Stradivari makes the Aranyi violin.
 * Cristofaro Caresana becomes an organist and singer in the Chapel Royal and director of the Neapolitan Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana.

Classical music

 * Samuel Capricornus – Sonata à 8 in A minor
 * Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Arie per il balletto à cavallo
 * John Weldon – The Tempest incidental music for the staged production that opened on 7 November

Publications

 * Giovanni Bononcini – Cantatas, I-MOe Mus.F.1379
 * Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 4, Op.43
 * Paul Gerhardt – Geistliche Andachten, a collection of hymns, published in Berlin
 * Adam Krieger – Arien, vol. 2
 * Giovanni Legrenzi – Sacri e festivi concenti, Op.9
 * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
 * 2e livre d'orgue contenant la messe et les hymnes de l'église, organ collection
 * Traité de la composition de musique
 * Esaias Reusner – Delitiae Testudinis
 * Giovanni Battista Vitali – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas
 * 7 Cantatas, I-MOe Mus.F.1361 (Various composers including a 7-year old Scarlatti )

Opera

 * Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro
 * Antonio Draghi – Vero amore fa soave ogni fatica
 * Carlo Pallavicino – Il Meraspe

Births

 * January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
 * February 5 – Gottfried Reiche, composer (died 1734)
 * February 21 – Bartholomäus Crasselius, hymnist (died 1724)
 * April 29 – John Arbuthnot, polymath, poet, and librettist (died 1735)
 * July 16 – Giuseppe Maria Jacchini, cellist and composer (died 1727)
 * September 24 – Jean-Louis Lully, musician and composer, son of Jean-Baptiste Lully (died 1688)
 * December 4 – Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (died 1737)
 * December 15
 * Floriano Arresti (French), Italian composer (died 1717)
 * Ernest Louis, composer and landgrave (died 1739)
 * December 18 – Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer (died 1716)
 * date unknown
 * Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (died 1752)

Deaths

 * February 6 – Giovanni Martino Cesare, cornet player and composer (born c.1590)
 * May 2 – George Wither, librettist, poet, and hymn composer (born 1588)
 * May 7 – Johann Jakob Froberger, organist and composer (born 1616)
 * May 18 – Melchior Schildt, composer and organist (born 1592 or 93)
 * June 18 – Luise Henriette von Oranien, lyricist (born 1627)
 * July – Francesco Manelli, composer (born 1594)
 * August 31 – Johann Rist, poet who authored many hymns (born 1607)
 * November 5 – Franz Tunder, composer (born 1614)
 * November 16 – Nathanael Schnittelbach, composer (born 1633)
 * date unknown – Johann Schop, violinist and composer (born c.1590)