Events

• Johann Schein
  Johann Schein
  Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig...
  
   becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
  Thomasschule zu Leipzig
  St. Thomas School, Leipzig is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world.St. Thomas is known for its art, language and music education...
  
  
• Collegium Musicum
  Collegium Musicum
  The Collegium Musicum was one of several types of musical societies that arose in German and German-Swiss cities and towns during the Reformation and thrived into the mid-18th century...
  
   is founded in Prague
  Prague
  Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
  
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Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
  
   – Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Tirsi e Clori (ballet)

Opera

• Domenico Belli – Orfeo dolente
• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Le nozze di Tetide (lost)

Births

• February 28 – Kaspar Förster
  Kaspar Förster
  Kaspar Förster was a German singer and composer.Förster studied music under his father Kaspar and then under Marco Scacchi in Warsaw...
  
  , opera composer (d. 1673)
• May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger
  Johann Jakob Froberger
  Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was among the most famous composers of the era and influenced practically every major composer in Europe by developing the genre of keyboard suite and contributing greatly to the exchange of musical...
  
  , composer and organist (died 1667)
• September - Jacques de Saint-Luc
  Jacques de Saint-Luc
  Jacques de Saint-Luc was a Flemish lutenist and composer.Saint-Luc was born in Ath in 1616; nothing is known about his early years. In 1639 he was invited to become a musician at the court in Brussels, and two years later he had his portrait painted by Gerard Seghers...
  
  , lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
• date unknown – Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
• probable – Maurizio Cazzati
  Maurizio Cazzati
  Maurizio Cazzati was a northern Italian composer of the seventeenth century.-Biography:Cazzati was born in Luzzara, Duchy of Mantua...
  
  , Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• June 6 - Cornelis Schuyt
  Cornelis Schuyt
  Cornelis Floriszoon Schuyt was a Dutch organist and Renaissance composer.Cornelis Floriszoon Schuyt was born in Leiden in 1557...
  
  , organist and composer (born 1557)
• probable - Krzysztof Klabon
  Krzysztof Klabon
  Krzysztof Klabon was a Polish Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He was one the most renowned instrumentalists of his time in Poland. His extant works are: a cycle of lute songs entitled Pieśni Kalliopy Slowienskiey...
  
  , composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)