1 January:CHRISTOPH BERNHARD = German composer = [died: 1692]
date unknown:
ROBERT CAMBERT = French composer of opera = [died: 1677]
Timeline of Events
22 November:GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome.
Undated:
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ returns to Venice to visit MONTEVERDI and ALESSANDRO GRANDI.
NICHOLAS LANIER's musical setting of CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'sHero and Leander, performed in this year, may have been a precursor of English opera. ("May have been," because Lanier's music for the poem has not survived.)
Classical Music
CARLO FARINA:
Il quarto libro delle pavane, gagliarde, balletti, volte, passamezi, sonate, canzon