Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 16 September:   HEINRICH BACH = German organist = [died: 1692]


• date unknown:
• GIOVANNI FAUSTINI = Italian librettist and opera impresario = [died: 1651]
• CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS = English organist and composer = [died: 1676]


• probable:
• FRANCESCA CAMPANA = Roman singer, spinet player and composer = [died: 1665]

Timeline of Events

• April: After a few months' employment at the court of the Duke of Mantua, FERDINANDO I GONZAGA. GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI returns to Rome.

Publications

• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI = Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni
• GIOVANNI GABRIELI = Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, published posthumously
• HANS LEO HASSLER = Venusgarten, a collection of instrumental music, published in Nuremberg

Classical Music

• ALESSANDRO GRANDI
• Plorabo die ac nocte, a motet for four voices

Opera

• FRANCESCA CACCINI
• Il ballo delle zigane (lost)
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Second edition of L'Orfeo