1637 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• First public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opened, in Venice
• Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi

[edit] Classical music

• Benedetto Ferrari - Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
• Girolamo Frescobaldi - Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
• Tarquinio Merula - Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

[edit] Opera

• Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli - Andromeda, the first publicly-shown opera, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice, during carnival

[edit] Births

• probable - Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

[edit] Deaths