Events in Music
- Jan 5 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone" premieres in Venice (the most popular opera of the 17th century)
Musicians Born in 1649
- Jan 22 Pascal Collasse, composer
- Feb 23 John Blow, English composer, composed 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized date) (d. 1708)
- Feb 27 Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque organist and composer, bapitzed in Nuremberg, Electorate of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1725)
- Apr 3 Joseph François Salomon, French composer, born in Toulon, France (d. 1732)
- Apr 23 Andreas Kneller, German composer, born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1724)
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