1657 in music

The year 1657 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 11 - Johann Adam Reincken becomes organist of the Bergkerk at Deventer.
• July 17 - Following the death of Tobias Michael in June, Sebastian Knüpfer is appointed Thomaskantor at Leipzig.
• Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna.^[1]
• King Louis XIV of France engages Étienne Richard as royal harpsichord teacher, in place of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

Popular music

• Gaspar de Verlit – Anthology of Christmas carols

Classical music

• Joannes Florentius a Kempis – Cantiones Natalitiae
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Salmi a cinque

Opera

• Francesco Cavalli - Artemisia
• Michel de La Guerre - Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères (sung in 1655, but first staged as an opera in 1657)^[2]

Births

• March 18 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, organist and composer (died 1743)
• July 25 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (died 1714)
• December 15 - Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (died 1726)
• probable - Gaetano Greco, composer (died c.1728)

Deaths

• March - John Hilton, lutenist and composer (born c.1599)
• March 26 - Jacob van Eyck, nobleman and musician (born c.1590)
• date unknown
  • Franciszek Lilius, composer (born c. 1600)
  • Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer (born 1600)

References

1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music (1991), Prentice Hall:Englewood Cliffs, page 152
2. ↑ Authors and their Centuries, Page 116 'This abbreviated summary necessarily disregards other proto-operatic productions, such as the Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères, of Michel de La Guerre and Charles de Beys (first sung in 1655, staged in 1657)...