Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• March:   ANTONIO BERTALI = Italian composer = [died: 1669]
• 18 April:   GIACOMO CARISSIMI = Italian composer = [died: 1674]
• 19 April:   ORAZIO BENEVOLI = Franco-Italian composer = [died: 1672]
• 9 July:   SIMON DACH = Prussian German hymn-writer = [died: 1659]
• 17 September:   FRANCESCO SACRATI = Italian early opera composer = [died: 1650]


• date unknown:
• CONSTANTIA ZIERENBERG = Polish singer and musician = [died: 1653]


• probable:
• JOHANN VIERDANCK = German violinist, cornettist, and composer = [died: 1646]
• JULIUS JOHANN WEILAND = German composer = [died: 1663]

Classical Music

• WILLIAM BYRD = Gradualia, book one
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Serenissimo Sig.r Duca di Mantoa, col basso continuo per il Clavicembano, Chittarone, od altro simile istromento; fatto particolarmente per li sei ultimi, per li altri a beneplacito (fifth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice
• MICHAEL PRAETORIUS = Musae Sionae, Part 1
• TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA = Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis