Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 19 April:   CHRISTOPH BACH = German court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach = [died: 1661]
• 20 August:   SOPHIE ELISABETH, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg = German poet and composer = [died: 1676]

Timeline of Events

• 15 February: The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, written by GEORGE CHAPMAN and designed by INIGO JONES, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features music by ROBERT JOHNSON.
• 20 February:
• FRANCIS BEAUMONT's The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by GIOVANNI COPERARIO.
• MONTEVERDI becomes maestro di capella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.


• date unknown:
• MICHAEL PRAETORIOUS joins the court of John George I, Elector of Saxony.

Classical Music

• JOHN BULL
• God the father, God the son (performed at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V, Elector Palatine).
• JOHN COOPER
• Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry
• NICHOLAS LANIER
• Maske... at the Marriage of... The Earl of Somerset
• LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI
• Seconda scelta delli madrigale a5, published posthumously
• SALAMONE ROSSI
• a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde
• JOHN WARD
• The First Set of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Viols and Voyces

Opera

• GIORDANO GIACOBBI
• Proserpina rapita