1654 in music
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Events
- January 12 – Première of Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
's opera XerseXerseXerse is an opera by Francesco Cavalli - specifically, a dramma per musica about Xerxes I. The libretto was written by Nicolò Minato, and was later set by both Giovanni Battista Bononcini and George Frideric Handel. Minato's plot outline is loosely based on Book 7 of Herodotus's Histories...
at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice - April 21 – Francisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco Lopez CapillasFrancisco López Capillas was a Mexican composer born in Mexico City.He was chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral from 21 April 1654, until his death. He was the most prolific composer of Baroque masses in Mexico....
becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral. - Georg Caspar WeckerGeorg Caspar WeckerGeorg 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....
becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg. - Antonio CestiAntonio CestiAntonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".- Biography :...
's opera Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the YoungerDario Varotari the YoungerDario Varotari the Younger was an Italian painter, engraver, and poet of the Baroque.He was born in Padua, the son of the painter Alessandro Varotari, and grandson of Dario Varotari the Elder.He was popular as a portrait painter....
, becomes the first production by the newly-formed InnsbruckMusic of InnsbruckInnsbruck is a city in the Austrian Alps whose musical heritage long played an important role in the music of Austria. Modern Innsbruck is home to the International Festival of Early Music , an Eastern music festival, the Summer Dance Festival, the Innsbruck International Choral Festival and the...
opera company.
Births
- February 3 – Pietro Antonio FioccoPietro Antonio FioccoPietro Antonio Fiocco was an Italian Baroque composer.-Life:Pietro Antonio Fiocco was born in Venice...
, composer (d. 1714) - July 25 – Agostino SteffaniAgostino SteffaniAgostino Steffani was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.-Biography:Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice...
, churchman, diplomat and composer (d. 1728) - September – Vincent LübeckVincent LübeckVincent Lübeck was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai , where he played one of the largest contemporary organs...
, organist and composer (d. 1740) - October 23 – Johann Bernhard StaudtJohann Bernhard StaudtJohann Bernhard Staudt was an Austrian Jesuit composer.Staudt was born in Vienna. His best-known work is the 1685 chamber opera Patientis Christi Memoria , which takes place at Jesus' tomb before the Resurrection...
, composer (d. 1712) - date unknown – Count Ludovico RoncalliLudovico RoncalliCount Ludovico Roncalli , or simply Count Ludovico, was an Italian nobleman who published a collection of suites for five-course baroque guitar, Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola , in 1692. This was transcribed to modern notation and arranged for the six-string guitar by Oscar...
, composer for guitar (d. 1713) - probable – Servaes de KoninckServaes de KoninckServaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink was a baroque composer from the Netherlands, of motets, Dutch songs, chamber and incidental music, French airs and Italian cantatas....
, composer (d. c.1701)
Deaths
- March 24 – Samuel ScheidtSamuel ScheidtSamuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.-Biography:...
, organist and composer (b. 1587) - October/November – Francisco Correa de ArauxoFrancisco Correa de ArauxoFrancisco Correa de Araujo was a notable Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance.-Life:...
, organist and composer (born 1584)