Events January 21 – , the final royal masque of the Caroline era, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by composer Lewis Richard.
Publications
Music Agostino Agazzari – (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco) Angelo Michele Bartolotti – , published in Florence Scipione Dentice – Second book of for five voices (Naples: Ottavio Beltrano) Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – (Rome)
Theory Pietro Della Valle – (About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages)
Classical music Claudio Monteverdi – , published in Venice
Opera Francesco Cavalli – Benedetto Ferrari – , premiered in Venice Claudio Monteverdi –
Births January 5 – Paolo Lorenzani, composer (died 1713) April 4 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish priest and composer (d. 1710) August 8 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697) November 4 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato singer and composer (d. 1697) probable – Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (d. c. 1720)
Deaths February 12 – Michael Altenburg, composer and theologian (born 1584) April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer and music theorist (born 1578) June – Peter Hasse, German organist and composer (b. c. 1585) June 29 – John Adson, musician and composer (born c. 1587) November – Giles Farnaby, virginalist and composer (born 1563) Adriana Basile, Italian composer (b. 1580) Francisca Duarte, Portuguese singer (b. 1595)
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