Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• JACQUES GAULTIER = French Baroque lutenist and composer = [died: 1652]

Timeline of Events

• 6 January: The Vision of Delight, a masque written by BEN JONSON and designed by INIGO JONES, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by NICHOLAS LANIER.
• 16 January: THOMAS WEELKES, organist at Chichester Cathedral, is dismissed for being drunk and disorderly.
• 22 February: Lovers Made Men, another masque by JONSON, JONES, and LANIER, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)

Publications

• JOHANN SCHEIN = Banchetto musicale

Classical Music

• BIAGIO MARINI
• Affetti musicali (Musical Affections), Op. 1
• JOHANN HERMANN SCHEIN
• Banchetto musicale

Opera

• GIORDANO GIACOBBI
• Il Reno sacrificante