Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 12 March:   PAUL GERHARDT = German hymn-writer = [died: 1676]
• 1 November:   GEORG PHILIPP HARSDORFFER = German poet and librettist = [died: 1658]
• 6 November:   SIGMUND THEOPHIL STADEN = German composer = [died: 1655]

Timeline of Events

• 6 January: Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by THOMAS CAMPION and other composers.
• 24 February: Première of CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.
• 1 March: FRANCESCO GONZAGA writes that the Duke of Mantua is pleased with MONTEVERDI's L'Orfeo and that the work had "been to the great satisfaction of all who heard it". Its second performance takes place on this date.
• Fourteen-year-old GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron GUIDO BENTIVOGLIO.
• FRANCESCA CACCINI marries GIOVANNI BATTISTA SIGNORINI.

Publications

• WILLIAM BYRD = Gradualia, Book 2
• HANS LEO HASSLER = Psalmen und christliche Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
• TOBIAS HUME = Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke, published by John Windet
• JOHANNES JEEP = Studentengartlein, vol. 1
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = Scherzi Musicali, Book 1

Classical Music

• ADRIANO BANCHIERI
• Ecclesiastiche sinfonie
• SALAMONE ROSSI
• a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde

Opera

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• L'Orfeo, favola in musica