The year 1661 in music involved some significant events.
Events April 19 – Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan. November 4 – Samuel Pepys' diary records a visit to the opera. King Louis XIV of France creates the Académie Royale de Danse. Jean-Baptiste Lully becomes a French subject. First public opera performances in Antwerp, on the stage of the Schouwburgh van de Oude Voetboog.
Classical music Thomas Gobert – Pseaume XVIII Matthew Locke – Flatt Consort Heinrich Schütz – Becker Psalter (revised and enlarged edition) Gaspar de Verlit – , vol. 1
Opera Antonio Bertali – Il Ciro crescente Jacopo Melani – Ercole in Tebe Antonio Sartorio – Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro
Births February – Henri Desmarets, composer (died 1741) February 5 – Barbara Kluntz, composer (died 1730) June 6 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (died 1756) September 2 – Georg Böhm, organist and composer (died 1733) November 1 – Florent Carton (Dancourt), librettist (died 1725) date unknown – Francesco Gasparini, composer (died 1727)
Deaths May 4 – Jean de Cambefort, composer (born 1605) May 9 – Alberich Mazak, composer (born 1609) June 3 – Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1593) August 29 – Louis Couperin, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1626) October – Germain Pinel, harpsichordist and composer (born c. 1600) November 16 – João Lourenço Rebelo, composer (born 1610) December 29 – Antoine Girard, librettist (born 1594)
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