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thumb|Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. He took the name "Cavalli" from his patron, Venetian nobleman Federico Cavalli.

Events

  • Asprilio Pacelli is appointed of St Peter's Basilica

Publications

  • February – Giulio Caccini – (The New Music), published in Florence
  • Agostino Agazzari – , book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
  • Gregor Aichinger – (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of , for three voices
  • Felice Anerio
  • Second book of (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
  • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
  • Giammateo Asola
  • (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
  • (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Ippolito Baccusi – for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Christoph Demantius – for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
  • Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
  • Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Melchior Franck
  • for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
  • for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
  • for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
  • Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Bartholomäus Gesius – for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
  • Pierre Guédron – for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
  • Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
  • Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
  • Duarte Lobo – for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
  • Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
  • Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  • Costanzo Porta – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
  • Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
  • Orfeo Vecchi
  • Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
  • (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
  • Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

  • Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

  • February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
  • April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
  • probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

  • January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
  • March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
  • October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
  • November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)

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