1668 in music

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The year 1668 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
• Joseph Haines joins the troupe of performers at Hatton Garden, London.
• Antonio Draghi is appointed to the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

• Thomas Tomkins' Musica Deo Sacra is published posthumously by his son, Nathaniel.
• Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.

Classical music

• Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 2

Opera

• Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro
• Antonio Draghi – Achille riconsciuto
• Jacopo Melani – Il Girello

Births

• November 10 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733)
• November 27 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (died 1750)
• date unknown – John Eccles, English composer (died 1735)

Deaths

• April 7 – Sir William Davenant, English poet and playwright, author of The Siege of Rhodes, considered the first opera in English (born 1606)
• October 23 – Giovanni Rovetta, Venetian composer (born 1596)
• December 2 – Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (born 1621)