1654 in music
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The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- April 21 â Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.[1]
- Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
- The newly formed Innsbruck opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's Cleopatra
- Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.
Publications
- Jacob van Eyck â Der Fluyten Lust-hof (4th edition)
Classical music
- Louis Couperin â Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem
Opera
- Antonio Maria Abbatini â Del male in bene
- Francesco Cavalli
- Antonio Cesti â Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, Innsbruck, date unknown.
- Francesco Provenzale â Teseo
Births
- February 3 â Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (died 1714)
- July 25 â Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728)
- September â Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (died 1740)
- October 23 â Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (died 1712)
- date unknown
- Ãtienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)[2]
- Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
- probable â Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)
Deaths
- February 19 â Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610)
- March 24 â Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1587)
- date unknown â Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer (born 1584)
- probable â Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)