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The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 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.

[edit] Classical music

• Heinrich Schütz - Psalmen Davids

[edit] Opera

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

• date unknown - Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626)
• date unknown - Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609)