1661 in music
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The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- April 19 â Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan.
- November 4 â Samuel Pepys' diary records a visit to the opera.
- King Louis XIV of France creates the Académie Royale de Danse.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully becomes a French subject.
- First public opera performances in Antwerp, on the stage of the Schouwburgh van de Oude Voetboog.
Classical music
- Thomas Gobert â Pseaume XVIII
- Matthew Locke â Flatt Consort
- Heinrich Schütz â Becker Psalter (revised and enlarged edition)
- Gaspar de Verlit â Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 1
Opera
- Antonio Bertali â Il Ciro crescente
- Jacopo Melani â Ercole in Tebe
- Antonio Sartorio â Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro
Births
- February â Henri Desmarets, composer (died 1741)
- February 5 â Barbara Kluntz, composer (died 1730)
- June 6 â Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (died 1756)
- September 2 â Georg Böhm, organist and composer (died 1733)
- November 1 â Florent Carton (Dancourt), librettist (died 1725)
- date unknown â Francesco Gasparini, composer (died 1727)
Deaths
- May 4 â Jean de Cambefort, composer (born 1605)
- May 9 â Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609)
- June 3 â Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1593)
- August 29 â Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)
- October â Germain Pinel, harpsichordist and composer (born c. 1600)
- November 16 â João Lourenço Rebelo, composer (born 1610)
- December 29 â Antoine Girard, librettist (born 1594)