1653 in music

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The year 1653 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • The Ballet Royal de la Nuit premieres on 23 February, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
  • Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
  • Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour (to 1666).
  • The Bavarian State Opera opera company is founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, performing Giovanni Battista Maccioni's L'arpa festante in the court theatre.[1]

Classical music

Opera

  • Antonio Maria Abbatini – Dal male il bene
  • Antonio Bertali – L'inganno d'amore
  • Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy – Andromède

Publications

  • Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume three, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Births

  • February 12 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, Italian singer (died 1697)
  • February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (died 1713)
  • June 1 – Georg Muffat, composer (died 1704)
  • September 1 (baptized) – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1706)

Deaths

  • January 14 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, patron of the arts and amateur composer (born 1595)
  • February 16 – Johannes Schultz, composer (born 1582)
  • February 23 – Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (born 1597)
  • March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)

References

  1. ↑ Warrack, John (2001). German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. Cambridge University Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0521235324.
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