• Source: 1653 in music

      • The year 1653 in music involved some significant events.


      Events


      The Ballet Royal de la Nuit premieres on 23 February, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
      Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
      Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour (to 1666).
      The Bavarian State Opera opera company is founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, performing Giovanni Battista Maccioni's L'arpa festante in the court theatre.


      Classical music




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      Antonio Maria Abbatini – Dal male il bene
      Antonio Bertali – L'inganno d'amore
      Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy – Andromède


      Publications


      Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume three, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna


      Births


      February 12 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, Italian singer (died 1697)
      February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (died 1713)
      June 1 – Georg Muffat, composer (died 1704)
      September 1 (baptized) – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1706)


      Deaths


      January 14 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, patron of the arts and amateur composer (born 1595)
      February 16 – Johannes Schultz, composer (born 1582)
      February 23 – Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (born 1597)
      March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)


      References

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