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The year 1669 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • February 17 – Première of Alessandro Melani's opera L'empio punito at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome. The work was commissioned by Marie Mancini.

Publications

  • Luigi Battiferri – Ricercari, Op.3
  • Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Op. 3, a collection of sonatas in canon
  • Henri Dumont – Cinq messes en plain-chant
  • Johann Caspar Kerll – Delectus sacrarum cantionum, 26 motets for 2–5 voices, 2 violins and basso continuo
  • Henry Lawes
  • Select Ayres and Dialogues
  • The Treasury of Musick
  • Samuel Capricornus
  • Continuatio theatri musici
  • Scelta musicale
  • Theatrum musicum
  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi – Sonate cioè balletti, sarabande, correnti, passacagli, capricetti e una trombetta...
  • Maurizio Cazzati – Varii, e diversi capricci per camera, Op. 50

Classical music

  • Johann Schmelzer – Sonata a 4, La Carolietta

Opera

  • Francesco Cavalli – Coriolano
  • Antonio Cesti – Genserico
  • Antonio Draghi – Achille in Sciro
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully – Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41

Births

  • April 6 – Johann Christopf Faber, composer, organist, and organ builder (died 1742)
  • February 2 – Louis Marchand, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1732)
  • August 24 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (died 1747)
  • October 10 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, composer (died 1753)
  • October 13 – Charles Desmazures, composer (died 1736)
  • date unknown
  • Johann Samuel Beyer, composer (died 1744)
  • Miquel López Sebastián, composer (died 1723)

Deaths

  • April 6 – Lars Wivallius, librettist (born 1605)
  • April 17 – Antonio Bertali, violinist and composer (born 1605)
  • May? – Étienne Richard, composer, organist and harpsichordist (born c.1621)
  • October 14 – Antonio Cesti, opera composer (born 1623)
  • October 28 – Agustin Moreto y Cavana, poet (born 1618)
  • date unknown
  • Richard Ayleward, musician and composer (born 1626)
  • Christopher Simpson, viola da gamba player and composer (born c.1605)
  • probable – Étienne Moulinié, composer (born c.1600)