1654 in music
Overview of the events of 1654 in music
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The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.[1]
- Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
- The newly formed Innsbruck opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's Cleopatra
- Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.
Publications
- Jacob van Eyck – Der Fluyten Lust-hof (4th edition)
Classical music
- Louis Couperin – Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem
Opera
- Antonio Maria Abbatini – Del male in bene
- Francesco Cavalli
- Ciro
- Xerse, January 12 at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
- Antonio Cesti – Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, Innsbruck, date unknown.
- Francesco Provenzale – Teseo
Births
- February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (died 1714)
- July 25 – Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728)
- September – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (died 1740)
- October 23 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (died 1712)
- date unknown
- Étienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)[2]
- Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
- probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)
Deaths
- February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610)
- March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1587)
- date unknown – Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer (born 1584)
- probable – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)
