Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• WOLFGANG EBNER = German organist and court composer = [died: 1665]
• JOHN HINGSTON = English organist, viol player and composer = [died: 1683]
• VINCENZO TOZZI = opera composer = [died: c. 1679]

Timeline of Events

• July: CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI is dismissed from his post at the court of Mantua by the new duke Francesco IV Gonzaga.
• 28 October: JOHN DOWLAND is appointed to a special post at the court of King James I of England.
• December: The death of Francesco Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, fails to bring a recall to court for Claudio Monteverdi.

Publications

• ORLANDO GIBBONS = The First Set Of Madrigals and Motetts of 5. Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces.
• HANS LEO HASSLER = Sacri concentus Book 2, published in Augsburg.

Classical Music

• PETER PHILIPS
• Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus.
• MICHAEL PRAETORIUS
• Terpsichore, a set of Renaissance dances.