See also: 1660 in music, other events of 1661, 1662 in music, list of years in music. 1661 (MDCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

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.

November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... Portrait of Samuel Pepys by John Hayls. ... Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday. ... Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632–March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. ...

Classical music

• Heinrich Schütz - Psalmen Davids

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (October 9, 1585 – November 6, 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. ...

Opera

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

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... Antonio Bertali (March, 1605 – April 17, 1669) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. ...

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)

// Events April 10 - Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining // 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice 1513... Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661 Р1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The famous organist Georg B̦hm (September 2, 1661 - May 18, 1733) was born in Hohenkirchen, Thuringia Germany. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Francesco Gasparini (1661 - February 22, 1727) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. ... Events 1727 to 1800 - Lt. ...

Deaths

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