Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• FRANCISCO LOPEZ CAPILLAS = Mexican composer = [died: 1674]

Timeline of Events

• 9 February: The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid, written by BEN JONSON and designed by INIGO JONES, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features the music of ALFONSO FERRABOSCO the younger.
• 4 June: CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI's latest work, Il ballo delle ingrate, is given its first performance in Mantua as part of the wedding celebrations for Francesco Gonzaga (the son of Monteverdri's patron Duke Vincenzo of Mantua) and Margaret of Savoy. In the same year, Monteverdi asks to be allowed to resign his post with the Gonzaga family.

Classical Music

• ADRIANO BANCHIERI
• Festino, a madrigal comedy
• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
• Il primo libro de' madrigali
• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
• Primo libro delle fantasie
• HANS LEO HASSLER
• Kirchenesäng, a collection of sacred songs, published in Nuremberg
• ROBERT JONES
• Ultimum vale, with a triplicity of musicke...
• THOMAS WEELKES
• Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices

Opera

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• L'Arianna (mostly lost)
• MARCO DA GAGLIANO
• Dafne