1667 in music

The year 1667 in music involved some significant events.

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Events

• January 27 – First performance at the Opernhaus am Taschenberg, the court opera house of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden designed by Wolf Caspar von Klengel, Giovanni Andrea Moneglia's Il teseo.
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier arrives in Rome.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Aranyi violin.
• Cristofaro Caresana becomes an organist and singer in the Chapel Royal and director of the Neapolitan Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana.

Classical music

• John Weldon – The Tempest incidental music for the staged production that opened on 7 November

Publications

• Paul Gerhardt – Geistliche Andachten, a collection of hymns, published in Berlin
• Adam Krieger – Arien, vol. 2
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – 2e livre d'orgue contenant la messe et les hymnes de l'église, organ collection
• Giovanni Battista Vitali – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas

Opera

• Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro
• Antonio Draghi – Vero amore fa soave ogni fatica
• Carlo Pallavicino – Il Meraspe

Births

• January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (died 1740)
• September 24 – Jean-Louis Lully, musician and composer, son of Jean-Baptiste Lully (died 1688)
• December 4 – Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (died 1737)
• date unknown – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (died 1752)

Deaths

• February 6 – Giovanni Martino Cesare, cornet player and composer (born c.1590)
• May 7 – Johann Jakob Froberger, organist and composer (born 1616)
• July – Francesco Manelli, composer (born 1594)
• November 5 – Franz Tunder, composer (born 1614)
• date unknown – Johann Schop, violinist and composer (born c.1590)