Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 15 July:   GIOVANNI BUONAVENTURA VIVIANI = Italian composer and violinist = [died: 1693]


• date unknown:
• DIOGO DIAS MELGÁS = Portuguese composer of polyphony = [died: 1700]

Timeline of Events

• 6 February: Luminalia, a masque written by Sir WILLIAM DAVENANT and designed by INIGO JONES, is staged at the English Court. The work features music by NICHOLAS LANIER

Publications

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi con alcuni opuscoli in genere rappresentativo, che saranno per brevi Episodij fra i canti senza gesto. Libro ottavo di Claudio Monteverde Maestro di Capella della Serenissima Republica di Venetia (eighth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice

Classical Music

• NICOLAS FORMÉ:
• Ecce tu pulchra es, a double choir motet

Opera

• BENEDETTO FERRARI and FRANCESCO MANELLI:
• La maga fulminate, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice
• MICHELANGELO ROSSI
• Andromeda, premiered in Ferrara.