Events

• Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane
  Teatro delle Quattro Fontane
  The Teatro delle Quattro Fontane is an opera house in Rome, Italy, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and built in 1632 by the Barberini family...
  
   in Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
  
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• William Child
  William Child
  William Child was an English composer and organist.Born in Bristol, William Child was a chorister in the cathedral under the direction of Elway Bevin. In 1630 he began his lifetime association with St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, becoming first a lay-clerk and, from 1632, Master of the...
  
   becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Publications

• 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...
  
   – Second book of scherzi musicali
• Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres

Births

• February 18 - Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
  
  , composer (died 1692)
• April 2 (baptised) – Georg Caspar Wecker
  Georg Caspar Wecker
  Georg Caspar Wecker was a German Baroque organist and composer. A minor composer of the Nuremberg school, Wecker is now best remembered as one of Johann Pachelbel's first teachers....
  
  , organist and composer (died 1695)
• November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully
  Jean-Baptiste Lully
  Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
  
  , composer (died 1687)

Deaths

• December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck
  Melchior Borchgrevinck
  Melchior Borchgrevinck was a Dutch-Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister. He was born to Bonaventura Borchgrevinck, a Dutch-Danish musician and court Kapellmeister...
  
  , Dutch-Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister (born c.1570)