1665 in music
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The year 1665 in music involved some significant events.
Events[]
- May 27 – John Loosemore completes the construction of the organ at Exeter Cathedral.
- Francesco Cavalli becomes first organist of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Bands formed[]
- Band of the Grenadier Guards, under the terms of a Royal Warrant issued the previous year.[1]
Publications[]
- Wojciech Bobowski – Mezmurlar, a collection of psalms in Turkish
Classical music[]
- John Blow – I will always give thanks
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers – Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église, the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the French Baroque organ school
Opera[]
- Antonio Bertali – L'Alcindo
- Andrea Mattioli – Ciro
Births[]
- March 17 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (died 1729)[2]
- date unknown
- Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, composer (died 1742)
- Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (died 1697)
- Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (died 1712)
- José de Torres, composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher (died 1738)
- probable – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, luthier (died 1716)
Deaths[]
- January 21 – Domenico Mazzochi, Italian composer (born 1592)
- November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, Portuguese court composer (born 1610)
- December 10 – Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist and composer (born c.1594)
Notes[]
- ^ Gordon Turner and Alwyn W Turner. "The Band of the Grenadier Guards". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ Hopkins Porter, Cecelia (2014). Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-25208-009-8.
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