1666 in music

The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
• Louis Grabu becomes Master of the King's Musick, under King Charles II of England.
• Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which had 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.

Opera

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

Births

• January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
• April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (died 1747)
• April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (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 – David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)

Deaths

• January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist (born 1588)
• February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist (born 1588)
• May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer (born 1586)
• June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer (born 1634)