Classical music

• Juan Arañés
  Juan Arañés
  Juan Arañés was a Spanish baroque composer.Arañés was born in Catalonia, at an unknown date. After studies in Alcalá de Henares, he was maestro di cappella at the Spanish embassy in Rome, where in 1624 he published his Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos. The first book is lost...
  
   - Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos
• 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...
  
   – Il primo libro di capricci
• 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...
  
   – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
  Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
  Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is an operatic scena for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi, although many dispute how the piece should be classified. The piece has a libretto drawn from Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata , a Romance set against the backdrop of the First Crusade...
  
  
• Samuel Scheidt
  Samuel Scheidt
  Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.-Biography:...
  
   – Tabulatura nova, three books of organ music
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder
  Johann Ulrich Steigleder
  Johann Ulrich Steigleder was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder , his father, and Utz Steigleder , his grandfather.Steigleder was born in Schwäbisch Hall on 22 March 1593...
  
   – Ricercar Tabulatura

Births

• date unknown
  • Francesco Provenzale
    Francesco Provenzale
    Francesco Provenzale was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.Before the year 1658, there is virtually no record of Provenzale's existence, although it's thought that he studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. The year of his entry into history is 1654, the year his...
    
    , composer (died 1704)
  • François Roberday
    François Roberday
    François Roberday was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices, a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ...
    
    , organist and composer (died 1680)

Deaths

• February 4 – Vicente Espinel
  Vicente Espinel
  Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel , was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro.He is credited with the addition of the 5th string to the guitar and the creation of the modern poetic form of the décima, composed of ten octameters, named espinella in Spanish after him.Espinel was born in Ronda...
  
  , writer and guitarist (born 1550)
• October – Marcantonio Negri, composer, singer and musical director