1658 in music
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The year 1658 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Johann Jacob Froberger leaves Vienna for the last time.
- Sir William Davenant's "operatic show," The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, is staged at the Cockpit Theatre in London during the summer.
Publications
- Antoine de Cousu â Musique universelle, contenant toute la pratique, et toute la théorie
- Johann Jacob Froberger â Libro terzo, A-Wn Mus.Hs.16560
- Henry Lawes â Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, vol. 3
- Etienne Moulinié â Meslanges de sujets Chrestiens ... avec une basse continue, a collection of sacred music
Classical music
- Johann Rudolf Ahle -- Ich hab's gewagt[1]
- Louis Couperin â Ave Maris Stella, OL 9
- Andreas Hammerschmidt â chorale: Meinen Jesum laà ich nicht, after Christian Keymann's hymn
- Jean-Baptiste Lully â Ballet d'Alcidiane, LWV 9
Opera
- Johann Caspar Kerll â Applausi Festivi
Births
- April 22 â Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (died 1709)
- October 11 â Christian Heinrich Postel, librettist (died 1705)
- date unknown
- Maria Francesca Nascimbeni, Italian composer (died 1680)
- Johann Georg Rauch I, composer (died 1710)
- probable â Jean Desfontaines, composer (died c.1752)
Deaths
- March â Valentin Dretzel, composer
- September 17 â Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, lyricist
- August 11 â Antoine de Cousu, composer and theorist
- August 27 â Stefano Fabri, Jr., musician
- November 15 â Jacobus Revius, lyricist
- probable
- Dario Castello, Italian composer (born c.1590)
- Henry Ferrabosco, English court musician