Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 3 February:   PIETRO ANTONIO FIOCCO = Italian composer = [died: 1714]
• 25 July:   AGOSTINO STEFFANI = Italian churchman, diplomat and composer = [died: 1728]
• September:   VINCENT LÜBECK = German organist and composer = [died 1740]
• 23 October:   JOHANN BERNHARD STAUDT = Austrian composer = [died: 1712]


• date unknown:
• ÉTIENNE LOULIÉ = French musician, teacher and music theorist = [died: 1702]
• Count LUDOVICO RONCALLI = Italian composer for guitar = [died: 1713]


• probable:
• SERVAES DE KONINCK = Dutch composer = [died: c.1701]

Timeline of Events

• 12 January: Première of FRANCESCO CAVALLI's opera Xerse at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
• 21 April: FRANCISCO LOPEZ CAPILLAS becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.


• Also in 1654:
• GEORG CASPAR WECKER becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
• ANTONIO CESTI's opera Cleopatra, with libretto by DARIO VAROTARI the Younger, becomes the first production by the newly formed Innsbruck opera company.
• Violin maker GIUSEPPE GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARNERI opens a workshop in Cremona.

Publications

• JACOB VAN EYCK = The Flute's Garden of Delights (4th edition)

Classical Music

• LOUIS COUPERIN
• Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem

Opera

• ANTONIO MARIA ABBATINI
• Del male in bene
• FRANCESCO CAVALLI
• Ciro
• FRANCESCO PROVENZALE
• Teseo