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The year 1662 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert.

Publications

Richard Dering Richard Dering (''c.'' 1580–1630) — also Deering, Dearing, Diringus, etc. — was an English Renaissance composer during the era of late Tudor music. He is noted for his pioneering use of compositional techniques which anticipated the advent ...

– {{lang, la, Cantica sacra for two and three voices with basso continuo (London: John Playford), published posthumously *Jakob Ludwig – '' Partiturbuch Ludwig'' (with works by Bertali, Frohberger, etc.) *''Courtly Masquing Ayres'' (Works by

Jenkins Jenkins may refer to: People * Jenkins (name), history of the surname * List of people with surname Jenkins * The Jenkins, country music group Places United States *Jenkins, Illinois *Jenkins, Kentucky *Jenkins, Minnesota *Jenkins, Missouri *Je ...

Adson Adson may refer to: Surname: * Alfred Washington Adson (1887–1951), American doctor (Adson's sign is named after him) * Artur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic * John Adson (c. 1587 – 1640), English musician and comp ...

, etc.)

Classical music

*Thomas Barcroft (or

George Barcroft George Barcroft (before 15741610) was an English composer of church music. Barcroft matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge on 12 December 1574, and proceeded to the degree of BA in 157778. He was appointed a minor canon and orga ...

) – ''Service in G'' * Philip Friederick Buchner – ''Plectrum musicum'', Op.4 *Maurizio Cazzati – ''Correnti, e balletti'', Op.30 *Andreas Hammerschmidt – ''Kirchen- und Tafel-Music'' *Giovanni Legrenzi – ''Compiete con le lettanie & antifone'', Op.7 *Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – ''Sacro-profanus concentus musicus'' (13 chamber sonatas)

Opera

*Giovanni Andrea Bontempi – ''Il Paride'' *Francesco Cavalli – ''Ercole amante'' (premiered Feb. 7 in Paris)

Births

*February 5 – :cs:Giuseppe Vignola, Giuseppe Vignola, Italian composer and musician (died 1712) *August 28 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, composer and painter (died 1708) *August 28 – Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, noblewoman and composer (died 1728) *December 17 – Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1735), Samuel Wesley I, lyricist (died 1735) *''date unknown'' **Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, composer (died 1725) **Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (died 1735) *''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 23 – William Young (composer), William Young, composer *April 27 – Davis Mell, English violinist (born 1604) *May 7 (or April 7)– Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, singer, organist, and composer (born 1590) *May 18 – Adam Billaut, French carpenter, poet and singer (born 1602) *July 1 – Simon Ives, English organist and court composer (born 1600) *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'' **Galeazzo Sabbatini, composer and music theorist (born 1597) 1662 in music,