The year 1663 in music.

• Antonio Cesti – La Dori Venice premiere
• Kaspar Förster – Der lobwürdige Cadmus^[1]

• Johann Rudolf Ahle
  • Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder^[2]
  • Neugepflantzten Thüringischen Lustgarten^[3]
• Giovanni Arrigoni—Salmi, Op. 9^[4]
• Andreas Hammerschmidt—16 Masses^[5]
• Bonifazio Graziani—Responsoria hebdomadæ sanctæ, Op.9^[6]
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Sonate a due, tre, cinque, a sei stromenti. Libro 3. Op. 8
• Jean-Baptiste Lully—Les noces de Village, LWV 19^[7]
• John Playford -- Musick's Hand-maid^[8]
• Johann Adam Reincken – An Wasserflüssen Babylon

• March 7 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (died 1745)
• March 16 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (died 1743)
• July 1 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and music theorist (died 1738)
• September 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, composer (died 1711)
• November 14 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, teacher of Handel (died 1712)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Adami da Bolsena, papal choirmaster (died 1742)
  • Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1754)
  • Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, composer (died 1722)

• March 20 – Biagio Marini, violinist and composer (born 1594)
• July 2 – Thomas Selle, composer (born 1599)
• July 24 – Thomas Baltzar, violinist (born c.1631)
• December 5 – Severo Bonini, composer (born 1582)
• date unknown
  • Antoine de Beaulieu, ballet dancer
  • Nicolas Hotman, composer (born c.1610)
  • Heinrich Scheidemann, organist and composer (born c.1595)