The year 1653 in music involved some significant events.

Events [ edit ]

• The Ballet Royal de la Nuit premieres on 23 February, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
• Madeleine de Scudery and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet , launch a salon.
• Jean-Baptiste Boesset 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. ^[1]

Classical music [ edit ]

Opera [ edit ]

• Antonio Maria Abbatini ? Dal male il bene
• Antonio Bertali ? L'inganno d'amore
• Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy ? Andromede

Publications [ edit ]

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

Births [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]