1666 in music
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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 Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which has 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.
- 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
- 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)[1]
- December 5 – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)[citation needed]
- date unknown – David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)
Deaths
- January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist, 77[2]
- February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist, 77[3]
- May 6 – Paul Siefert, organist and composer, 79[4]
- June 30 – Adam Krieger, German composer, 32[5]
References
- ^ Alfred Ebsworth Hill; Arthur Frederick Hill; William Henry Hill (1989). The Violin-makers of the Guarneri Family, 1626-1762. Dover Publications. p. xx. ISBN 9780486260617.
- ^ "Johann Andreas Herbst", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- ^ 1666 in music at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ George R. Boyd (1996). The Scacchi/Siefert Controversy with Translations of Marco Scacchi, Cribrum Musicum and Paul Siefert, Anticribratio Musica. Indiana University. p. 7.
- ^ John Madison Brown (1977). Adam Krieger, Poet. Johns Hopkins University. p. 31.