1660 in music
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The year 1660 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at Helsingør in Denmark.
- Pelham Humphrey and John Blow become members of the Chapel Royal.
Publications
- Johann Crüger â Musicae Practicae
- Nicolas Fleury â Methode pour apprendre facilement a toucher le theorbe sur la basse-continuë
- Tommaso Marchetti â Intavolatura della chitarra spagnola
Classical music
- Johann Rudolf Ahle â Erstes Zehn Neuer Geistlicher Arien
- Christoph Bernhard â Fürchtet euch nicht
- Samuel Capricornus â Jubilus Bernhardi
- Maurizio Cazzati â Trattenimenti per camera, Op.22
- Giovanni Legrenzi â Sentimenti devoti, Op.6
- Matthew Locke â Consort of Four Parts
- Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)
- Marco Uccellini
- Ozio Regio, Op.7
- Sinfonie Boscarecie, Op. 8
- Bauyn Manuscript
Opera
- Antonio Bertali â La magia delusa
- Francesco Cavalli â Xerxès
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco â Celos aun del aire matan
- Francesco Manelli â La filo
- Francesco Rossi â L'Arianna[1]
- Giuseppe Tricarico â L'Oronie
- Filippo Vismarri â L'Orontea
- Pietro Andrea Ziani â L'Antigona delusa da Alceste
Births
- April 6 â Johann Kuhnau, organist and composer (died 1722)
- April 19 â Sebastián Durón, composer of stage music (died 1716)
- May 2 â Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (died 1725)
- August 20 â Mathieu Lanes, composer and harpsichordist (died 1725)
- December 4 (baptized) â André Campra, French composer (died 1744)
- date unknown
- Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Italian composer and nun (died c. 1710)
- Johann Joseph Fux, composer (died 1741)
Deaths
- March 2 (buried) â Friederich Stellwagen, organ builder (born 1603)
- date unknown
- Johann Klemm, German organist and composer (born c.1593)
- Johannes Praetorius, organist and composer (born 1595)