1655 in music
The year 1655 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Composer Johann Rosenmüller is imprisoned as the result of a scandal concerning alleged homosexual activities.
Publications
Classical music
- Giovanni Legrenzi – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas[1]
Opera
- Giuseppe Alfiero – La fedeltà trionfante (lost)
Births
- May 4 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano (died 1731)
- August 13 – Johann Christoph Denner, wind instrument maker (died 1707)
- probable – Robert de Visée, lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and violin player (died c.1732)
Deaths
- April 4 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, organist and composer (born 1616)
- July 30 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (born 1607)
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References
- Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 152. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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