Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 February:   ALESSANDRO MELANI = Italian composer = [died: 1703]
• 3 April:    ALESSANDRO STRADELLA = Italian composer = [died: 1682]

Publications

• FRANCESCO CORBETTA = De gli scherzi armonici, a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
• ALESSANDRO PICCININI = Intavolatura di liuto (posthumous print)

Classical Music

• HEINRICH SCHÜTZ:
• Kleine geistliche Konzerte (Small Sacred Concertos), part 2

Opera

• FRANCESCO CAVALLI:
• Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
• BENEDETTO FERRARI:
• L'Armida
• MARCO MARAZZOLI and VIRGILIO MAZZOCCHI:
• Chi soffre, speri, libretto by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), premièred in Rome
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI:
• Adone, premiéred in Venice