Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 February:   KASPAR FÖRSTER = German opera composer = [died: 1673]
• 18 May:   JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER = German composer and organist = [died: 1667]
• September:   JACQUES DE SAINT-LUC = Flemish lutenist and composer = [died: c.1710]


• date unknown:
• MATTHIAS WECKMAN = German composer = [died: 1674]


• probable:
• MAURIZIO CAZZATI = Italian composer = [died: 1678]

Timeline of Events

• JOHANN SCHEIN becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
• Collegium Musicum is founded in Prague.
• MANUEL CORREIA joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
• Librettist ANDREA SALVADORI becomes court poet to the Medici family.

Publications

• NICOLAS VALLET = Le Secret des Muses, part 2

Classical Music

• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
• Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Tirsi e Clori (ballet)

Opera

• DOMENICO BELLI
• Orfeo dolente
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Le nozze di Tetide (lost)