1661 in music

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The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.

Events

April 19 – Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan.
November 4 – 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

Heinrich Schütz – Becker Psalter
Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 1

Opera

Antonio Bertali – Il Ciro crescente
Jacopo Melani – Ercole in Tebe
Antonio Sartorio – Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro

Births

February – Henri Desmarets, composer (died 1741)
June 6 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (died 1756)
September 2 – Georg Böhm, organist and composer (died 1733)
date unknown – Francesco Gasparini, composer (died 1727)

Deaths

May 9 – Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609)
June 3 – Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1593)
August 29 – Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)