Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 22 June:   PABLO BRUNA = Spanish blind organist and composer = [died: 1679]
• December:   LEONORA BARONI = Italian singer, instrumentalist and composer = [died: 1670]


• date unknown:
• THOMAS BREWER = composer who introduced the "glee" form = [died: c.1660]

Timeline of Events

• 1 January:
• OBERON, THE FAERY PRINCE, a masque written by BEN JONSON and designed by INIGO JONES, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by ALFONSO FERRABOSCO the younger and ROBERT JOHNSON.
• 3 February:
• LOVE FREED FROM IGNORANCE AND FOLLY, another JONSON/JONES masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by FERRABOSCO.

Publications

• ROBERT BALLARD = a collection of arrangements for the lute.
• WILLIAM BYRD = Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets
• CARLO GESUALDO = Sixth book of madrigals a 5
• JOHANNES HIERONYMUS KAPSBERGER = Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto
• Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by JOHN BULL, WILLIAM BYRD, and ORLANDO GIBBONS

Popular Music

• THOMAS RAVENSCROFT
• Melismata

Opera

• GIULIO CESARE MONTEVERDI
• Il rapimento di Proserpina