1661 in music
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Events
- April 19 – Maria Cattarina CalegariMaria Cattarina CalegariCornelia [Maria Cattarina ] Calegari , was an Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun. She was revered for her singing talents in her home city and became a published composer in 1659, at the age of 15, with the release of her book of motets, Motetti ὰ voce sola.Cornelia was born at Bergamo...
takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan. - November 4 – Samuel PepysSamuel PepysSamuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
' diary records a visit to the opera. - King Louis XIV of FranceLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
creates the Académie Royale de Danse. - Jean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
becomes a French subject.
Classical music
- Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
– Psalmen Davids - Gaspar de VerlitGaspar de VerlitGaspar de Verlit or Gaspar Verlit was a Baroque composer, first chorister and later also a singer at the court chapel in Brussels, choirmaster at St.Vincent’s Church in Soignies and singing master at St. Nicolas Church in Brussels. In 1658, he became chaplain at the court chapel. He published two...
– Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 1
OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
- Antonio BertaliAntonio BertaliAntonio Bertali was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.He was born in Verona and received early music education there from Stefano Bernardi. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1649 Bertali succeeded Giovanni Valentini as...
– Il Ciro crescente - Jacopo MelaniJacopo MelaniJacopo Melani was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Pistoia, and was the brother of composer Alessandro Melani and singer Atto Melani.-Works:...
– Ercole in Tebe - Antonio SartorioAntonio SartorioAntonio Sartorio was an Italian composer active mainly in Italy and in Hamburg, Germany. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the 1660s and 1670s and was also known for composing in other genres of vocal music...
– Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro
Births
- February – Henri DesmaretsHenri DesmaretsHenri Desmarets was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works....
, composer (died 1741) - March 19 – Francesco GaspariniFrancesco GaspariniFrancesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....
, composer and teacher (died 1727) - June 6 – Giacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio Perti was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years...
, composer (died 1756) - September 2 – Georg BöhmGeorg BöhmGeorg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.-Life:Böhm was born in 1661 in Hohenkirchen, near Ohrdruf...
, organist and composer (died 1733) - date unknown – Francesco GaspariniFrancesco GaspariniFrancesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....
, composer (died 1727)
Deaths
- May 9 – Alberich MazakAlberich MazakAlberich Mazak, also Alberik Mazák was an Czech-Austrian 17th century composer. He was born in Ratibor in Czech family. After studying Music and Philosophy, he entered Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1631 and in 1633 he became a priest.-Works, editions and recordings:He created more than 300 compositions...
, composer (born 1609) - June 3 – Gottfried ScheidtGottfried ScheidtGottfried Scheidt was a German composer and organist.Born in Halle, he moved to Amsterdam in 1611 to study with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, returning home in 1615 to further study with his older brother Samuel Scheidt and others. He was appointed organist to the Altenburg court in 1617, and held...
, organist and composer (born 1593) - August 29 – Louis CouperinLouis CouperinLouis Couperin was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–51 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Gervais in Paris and as musician at the court...
, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)