The year 1654 in

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involved some significant events.

Events

April 21 Events Pre-1600 *753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...

– Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral. *

Georg Caspar Wecker Georg Caspar Wecker (baptized 2 April 1632 – 20 April 1695) was a German Baroque organist and composer. A minor composer of the Nuremberg school, Wecker is now best remembered as one of Johann Pachelbel's first teachers. Wecker was born an ...

becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg. *The newly formed

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's ''Cleopatra'' *Violin maker

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, better known as Giuseppe ''filius Andrea'' Guarneri (25 November 1666 – 1739/1740) was a violin maker from the prominent Guarneri family of luthiers who lived in Cremona, Italy. Biography Early life Giov ...

opens a workshop in Cremona.

Publications

Jacob van Eyck Jacob van Eyck ( , ; 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, an organist, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was ...

– ''

Der Fluyten Lust-hof ''Der Fluyten Lust-hof'' (The Flute's Pleasure Garden, or Garden of Delights) is a two-volume collection of music for Recorder (musical instrument), recorder by Jacob van Eyck. It is the largest collection of music for a single wind instrument ...

'' (4th edition)

Classical music

* Louis Couperin – ''Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem''

Opera

Antonio Maria Abbatini Antonio Maria Abbatini ( or 1610 – or 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome. Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orv ...

– ''Del male in bene'' *

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverd ...

** '' Ciro'' **'' Xerse'', January 12 at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice * Antonio Cesti – ''Cleopatra'', with libretto by

Dario Varotari the Younger Dario Varotari the Younger (active 1660) was an Italian painter, engraver, and poet of the Baroque. He was born in Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Ba ...

, Innsbruck, ''date unknown''. *

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

– ''Teseo''

Births

February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...

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Pietro Antonio Fiocco Pietro Antonio Fiocco (or Pier Antonio or Pierre-Antoine) (3 February 1654 – 3 September 1714) was an Italian people, Italian Baroque composer. Life Pietro Antonio Fiocco was born in Venice. Nothing is known of his childhood and his musical f ...

, composer (died 1714) *

July 25 Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...

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Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer. Biography Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667, ...

, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728) *September –

Vincent Lübeck Vincent Lübeck (c. September 1654 – 9 February 1740) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani (1675–1702) and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai (1702–1 ...

, organist and composer (died 1740) * October 23 –

Johann Bernhard Staudt Johann Bernhard Staudt (October 23, 1654 November 6, 1712) was an Austrian Jesuit composer. Son of a musician born in Wiener Neustadt. Since 1684 choir master ("regens chori") at the Professhaus of the Jesuits in Vienna. Between 1684 and 1707 he c ...

, composer (died 1712) *''date unknown'' **

Étienne Loulié Étienne Loulié, pronounced .tjɛn lu.lje (1654 – 16 July 1702) was a musician, pedagogue and musical theorist. Life Born into a family of Parisian sword-finishers, Loulié learned both musical practice and musical theory as a choir boy at the ...

, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702){{cite web , title=Étienne Loulié (1654–1702) , url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12382411/etienne_loulie/ , website=data.bnf.fr , accessdate=7 May 2019 **Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713) *''probable'' – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)

Deaths

February 19 Events Pre-1600 * 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. * 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...

– Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610) * March 24 –

Samuel Scheidt Samuel Scheidt (baptised 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with ...

, organist and composer (born 1587) *''date unknown'' –

Francisco Correa de Arauxo Francisco Correa de Araujo (or Arauxo, or Acebedo) (1584–1654) was a Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance. Life Correa de Araujo was born in Seville. Like most Spanish organists from this era, details of his life ...

, organist and composer (born 1584) *''probable'' – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)

References

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