1662 in music

The year 1662 in music involved some significant events.

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Events

• Jean-Baptiste Lully marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert.

Publications

• Richard Dering – Cantica sacra for two and three voices with basso continuo (London: John Playford), published posthumously

Classical music

• Thomas Barcroft (or George Barcroft) – Service in G

Opera

• Giovanni Andrea Bontempi – Il Paride
• Francesco Cavalli – Ercole amante

Births

• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, composer (died 1725)
  • Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (died 1735)
  • Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, composer and painter (died 1708)
• probable – Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, composer, cellist and trombone player (died 1700)

Deaths

• January 26 – Marco Marazzoli, Italian composer of cantatas (born c.1602 or 1608)
• February – Giuseppe Zamponi, organist and composer (born c.1615)
• February 23 – Johann Crüger, composer (born 1598)
• April 27 – Davis Mell, English violinist (born 1604)
• May 7 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, singer, organist, and composer (born 1590)
• July 7 – Andreas Düben, organist and composer (born c. 1597)
• September 7 – Marco Scacchi, composer and music writer (born c.1600)
• October 21 – Henry Lawes, composer (born 1595)
• date unknown
  • Simon Ives, English organist and court composer (born 1600)
  • Galeazzo Sabbatini, composer and music theorist (born 1597)