1655 in music
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Events
- Composer Johann RosenmüllerJohann RosenmüllerJohann Rosenmüller , was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north....
is imprisoned as the result of a scandal concerning alleged homosexual activities.
Births
- May 4 – Bartolomeo CristoforiBartolomeo CristoforiBartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano.-Life:...
, inventor of the piano (died 1731) - August – Johann Christoph DennerJohann Christoph DennerJohann Christoph Denner , was a famous woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet is attributed....
, wind instrument maker (died 1707) - probable – Robert de ViséeRobert de ViséeRobert de Visée was a lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of Louis XIV, as well as a singer, and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.-Biography:...
, lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player (died c.1732)
Deaths
- April 4 – Johann Erasmus KindermannJohann Erasmus KindermannJohann Erasmus Kindermann was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century.-Life:...
, organist and composer (born 1616) - July 30 – Sigmund Theophil StadenSigmund Theophil StadenSigmund Theophil Staden was an important early German composer.Staden was born in Kulmbach, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school...
, German composer (born 1607)