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