The year 1666 in music involved some significant events.

[edit] Events

• The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.

[edit] Classical music

• Giovanni Maria Bononcini - Op. 1

[edit] Opera

• Antonio Draghi - La Mascherata
• Carlo Pallavicino - Demetrio

[edit] 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 5 - Attilio Ariosti, composer (died 1729)
• December 5 - Francesco Scarlatti, composer (died 1741)
• date unknown - David Tecchler, luthier (died 1748)

[edit] Deaths

• January 24 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer and music theorist (born 1588)
• February 24 - Nicholas Lanier, singer, composer and artist (born 1588)
• May 6 - Paul Siefert, organist and composer (born 1586)
• date unknown - Adam Krieger, German composer