1655 in music

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The year 1655 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Publications 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 References

Events

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 - Johann Christoph Denner, wind instrument maker (died 1707)

Deaths

• April 4 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, organist and composer (born 1616)
• July 30 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (born 1607)

References

1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. pp. 152. ISBN 0-13-058496-7. 

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