1669 in music

The year 1669 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * February 17 – Première of Alessandro Melani's opera L'empio punito at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome. The work was commissioned by Marie Mancini.

Publications

 * Luigi Battiferri – Ricercari, Op.3
 * Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Op. 3, a collection of sonatas in canon
 * Henri Dumont – Cinq messes en plain-chant
 * Johann Caspar Kerll – Delectus sacrarum cantionum, 26 motets for 2–5 voices, 2 violins and basso continuo
 * Henry Lawes
 * Select Ayres and Dialogues
 * The Treasury of Musick
 * Samuel Capricornus
 * Continuatio theatri musici
 * Scelta musicale
 * Theatrum musicum
 * Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi – Sonate cioè balletti, sarabande, correnti, passacagli, capricetti e una trombetta...
 * Maurizio Cazzati – Varii, e diversi capricci per camera, Op. 50

Classical music

 * Johann Schmelzer – Sonata a 4, La Carolietta

Opera

 * Francesco Cavalli – Coriolano
 * Antonio Cesti – Genserico
 * Antonio Draghi – Achille in Sciro
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully – Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41

Births

 * April 6 – Johann Christopf Faber, composer, organist, and organ builder (died 1742)
 * February 2 – Louis Marchand, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1732)
 * August 24 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (died 1747)
 * October 10 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, composer (died 1753)
 * October 13 – Charles Desmazures, composer (died 1736)
 * date unknown
 * Johann Samuel Beyer, composer (died 1744)
 * Miquel López Sebastián, composer (died 1723)

Deaths

 * April 6 – Lars Wivallius, librettist (born 1605)
 * April 17 – Antonio Bertali, violinist and composer (born 1605)
 * May? – Étienne Richard, composer, organist and harpsichordist (born c.1621)
 * October 14 – Antonio Cesti, opera composer (born 1623)
 * October 28 – Agustin Moreto y Cavana, poet (born 1618)
 * date unknown
 * Richard Ayleward, musician and composer (born 1626)
 * Christopher Simpson, viola da gamba player and composer (born c.1605)
 * probable – Étienne Moulinié, composer (born c.1600)