The year 1662 in music involved some significant events.
Events July 24 – Jean-Baptiste Lully marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert.
Publications Richard Dering – 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, Adson, etc.)
Classical music Thomas Barcroft (or George Barcroft) – 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 – 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 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 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)
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