Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• SOLOMON ECCLES = English composer = [died: 1683]
• PIERRE ROBERT = French composer = [died: 1699]

Timeline of Events

• Beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which will disrupt German musical establishments, and will affect the nature of the music composed by those who endured the widespread devastation, famine, and disease of this period.
• ROBERT BALLARD becomes lutenist and composer at the court of King Louis XIII of France.
• MICHAEL EAST is choirmaster at Lichfield Cathedral.

Publications

• MICHAEL EAST = The Fourth Set Of Bookes ... to 4. 5. and 6. Parts: Apt for Viols and Voyces
• JOHANN HERMANN SCHEIN = Opella nova (Little new works), volume 1, a collection of sacred concertos
• RENÉ DESCARTES = Compendium Musicae
• MICHAEL PRAETORIUS = De Organographia

Classical Music

• GREGORIO ALLEGRI
• Concerti, vol. 1

Opera

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Andromeda (lost)