The year 1667 in music involved some significant events.
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 Samuel Capricornus – Sonata à 8 in A minor Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Arie per il balletto à cavallo John Weldon – The Tempest incidental music for the staged production that opened on 7 November
Publications Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Cantatas, I-MOe Mus.F.1379 Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 4, Op.43 Paul Gerhardt – Geistliche Andachten, a collection of hymns, published in Berlin Adam Krieger – Arien, vol. 2 Giovanni Legrenzi – Sacri e festivi concenti, Op.9 Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers 2e livre d'orgue contenant la messe et les hymnes de l'église, organ collection Traité de la composition de musique Esaias Reusner – Delitiae Testudinis Giovanni Battista Vitali – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas 7 Cantatas, I-MOe Mus.F.1361 (Various composers including a 7-year old Scarlatti)
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) February 5 – Gottfried Reiche, composer (died 1734) February 21 – Bartholomäus Crasselius, hymnist (died 1724) April 29 – John Arbuthnot, polymath, poet, and librettist (died 1735) July 16 – Giuseppe Maria Jacchini, cellist and composer (died 1727) September 24 – Jean-Louis Lully, musician and composer, son of Jean-Baptiste Lully (died 1688) December 4 – Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (died 1737) December 15 Floriano Arresti (French), Italian composer (died 1717) Ernest Louis, composer and landgrave (died 1739) December 18 – Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer (died 1716) date unknown Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (died 1752)
Deaths February 6 – Giovanni Martino Cesare, cornet player and composer (born c.1590) May 2 – George Wither, librettist, poet, and hymn composer (born 1588) May 7 – Johann Jakob Froberger, organist and composer (born 1616) May 18 – Melchior Schildt, composer and organist (born 1592 or 93) June 18 – Luise Henriette von Oranien, lyricist (born 1627) July – Francesco Manelli, composer (born 1594) August 31 – Johann Rist, poet who authored many hymns (born 1607) November 5 – Franz Tunder, composer (born 1614) November 16 – Nathanael Schnittelbach, composer (born 1633) date unknown – Johann Schop, violinist and composer (born c.1590)
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