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The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.

  • Gerrard Winstanley – "Diggers' Song"

Classical music

  • Melchior Franck – for three voices (Coburg: Johann Eyrich), a funeral motet, published posthumously
  • Johann Jakob Froberger – Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite (presentation manuscript, September)
  • Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume one, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Opera

  • Pietro Cavalli – Jason
  • Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale.

Births

  • February 23 – John Blow, organist and composer
  • May 3 (bapt.) – Johann Valentin Meder, organist and composer (d. 1719)
  • date unknown – Johann Krieger, composer
  • John Blow, organist and composer
  • probable – Jacques Boyvin, French organist and composer (died 1706)

Deaths

  • April 29/30 – Giovanni Valentini, keyboard virtuoso and composer.

References