1666 in music

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, published in Venice.
• 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

  [Opera]

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

  Births

• January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer
• April 18 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer
• April 25 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer
• October – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer
• November 1 – James Sherard, apothecary and musician
• November 5 – Attilio Ariosti, composer
• November 25 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker
• December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer
• date unknown – David Tecchler, luthier

  Deaths

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