The year 1657 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 11 – Johann Adam Reincken becomes organist of the Bergkerk at Deventer.
• July 17 – Following the death of Tobias Michael in June, Sebastian Knüpfer is appointed Thomaskantor at Leipzig.
• Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna.^[1]
• King Louis XIV of France engages Étienne Richard as royal harpsichord teacher, in place of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

Popular music

• Gaspar de Verlit – Anthology of Christmas carols

Classical music

• Henri Dumont – Meslanges à 2, 3, 4 et 5 parties
• Joannes Florentius a Kempis – Cantiones Natalitiae
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Salmi a cinque
• Heinrich Schütz
  • 12 Geistliche Gesänge, Op.13
  • Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener, SWV 432-433
• Barbara Strozzi – Ariette a voce sola, Op.6

Opera

• Francesco Cavalli – Artemisia
• Michel de La Guerre – Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères (sung in 1655, but first staged as an opera in 1657)^[2]

Births

• March 18 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, organist and composer (died 1743)
• July 25 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (died 1714)
• December 15 – Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (died 1726)
• probable – Gaetano Greco, composer (died c.1728)

Deaths

• March – John Hilton the younger, lutenist and composer (born c.1599)
• March 26 – Jacob van Eyck, nobleman and musician (born c.1590)
• June 26 – Tobias Michael (born 1592)
• October 21 – Alessandro Costantini (born c. 1581)
• October 23 – Domenico Massenzio, Italian composer (born 1586)
• date unknown
  • Franciszek Lilius, composer (born c. 1600)
  • Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer (born 1600)

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