1666 in music

The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

Events

The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.
King Charles II of England appoints Louis Grabu as Master of the King's Musick and a group of Italian musicians as the 'King's Italian Music'.
Jean-Baptiste BoÃ«sset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has lasted since 1653.
Antonio Stradivari makes the Ex Back violin.

Giovanni Maria Bononcini â Primi frutti del giardino musicale, Op. 1 (10 trio sonatas da chiesa and five dances), published in Venice.
Dieterich Buxtehude
- Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken, BuxWV 4
- Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113
Johann Georg Ebeling â Morgen-Segen: Die gÃ¼ldne Sonne
John Playford -- Musick's Delight on the Cithren
Heinrich Schutz
- MatthÃ¤us-Passion, SWV 479
- Johannes-Passion, SWV 481
Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Ballet des Muses, LWV 32
- Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes, LWV 30
Pavel Josef VejvanovskÃ½ â Sonata a 5

January 5 â Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
April 6 â Angelo Michele Bartolotti, composer (died c. 1682)^[1]
April 25 â Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (died 1727)
August 20 â Alphonse d' Eve, composer and singer (died 1727)
October â Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (died 1734)
November 1 â James Sherard, apothecary and musician (died 1738)
November 5 â Attilio Ariosti, composer (died 1729)
November 25 â Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, violin maker (died c.1740)^[2]
December 5 â Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)^{[citation needed]}
date unknown
- Carlo Francesco Cesarini, composer (died 1741)
- Michelangelo Faggioli, composer (died 1733)
- David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)