1668 in music

The year 1668 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
 * Joseph Haines joins the troupe of performers at Hatton Garden, London.
 * Antonio Draghi is appointed to the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

 * Dietrich Becker – Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte
 * Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.
 * Thomas Tomkins' Musica Deo Sacra is published posthumously by his son, Nathaniel.
 * Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 2

Classical music

 * Christoph Bernhard -- Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein (and other portions of Geistlicher Harmonien Erster Teil)
 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber -- Sonata à 7
 * Dietrich Buxtehude -- All solch dein Güt wir preisen, BuxWV 3
 * Francesco Cavalli -- O bone Jesu
 * Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 5, Op.46
 * Henry DuMont -- Motets à deux voix, avec la basse-continue
 * Lambert Pietkin -- Sacri concentus, Op. 3
 * Johann Schmelzer - Harmonia à 5

Opera

 * Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro (premiered July 12 or 14 in Vienna)
 * Antonio Draghi – Achille riconsciuto
 * Jacopo Melani – Il Girello
 * Jean-Baptist Lully
 * Le carnaval, LWV 36
 * George Dandin
 * La Grotte de Versailles
 * Francesco Feo -- Andromaca

Births

 * January 8 – Jean Gilles, composer (died 1705)
 * June 19 – Georg von Bertouch, composer (died 1743)
 * September 13 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (died 1767)
 * October 29 – Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (died 1704)
 * November 10 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733)
 * November 27 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (died 1750)
 * December 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian librettist (died 1750)
 * date unknown – John Eccles, English composer (died 1735)

Deaths

 * March 7 – Odoardo Ceccarelli, Italian singer and composer (born c. 1600)
 * April 7 – Sir William Davenant, English poet and playwright, author of The Siege of Rhodes, considered the first opera in English (born 1606)
 * October 23 – Giovanni Rovetta, Venetian composer (born 1596)
 * August 9 – Jacob Balde, German New Latin poet and lyricist (born 1604)
 * December 2 – Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (born 1621)
 * date unknown
 * Nicolas Métru, French organist, violist, and composer (born 1610)
 * Francesco Sbarra, dramatist, poet, and librettist (born 1611)