Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 July:   ARP SCHNITGER = German organ builder = [died: 1719]
• 9 August:   JOHANN MICHAEL BACH = German composer = [died: 1694]

Timeline of Events

• End of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
• 6 December: The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of BARTHOLOMÄUS AICH's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.

Publications

• JOHANN RUDOLPH AHLE = Compendium per tenellis
• FRANCESCO CORBETTA = Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
• HENRY LAWES = Choice Psalmes.
• HEINRICH SCHÜTZ = Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)

Classical Music

• CHIARA MARGARITA COZZOLANI
• Scherzi di sacra melodia a voce sola