Events

• Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna
  Bologna
  Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
  
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Classical music

• Joannes Florentius a Kempis
  Joannes Florentius a Kempis
  Joannes Florentius a Kempis was a Baroque composer from the Southern Netherlands.Joannes Florentius was the fifth son of the probably more famous Nicolaes a Kempis. Like his father, Joannes Florentius was also a composer and an organist. Between 1670 and 1672, he succeeded to his father’s...
  
   – Cantiones Natalitiae
• Giovanni Legrenzi
  Giovanni Legrenzi
  Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era...
  
   – Salmi a cinque

Births

• March 18 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
  Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
  Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni was an organist and composer born in Rieti, Perugia, Italy. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.-Life:...
  
  , organist and composer (died 1743)
• July 25 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
  Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
  Philipp Heinrich Erlebach was a German Baroque composer.- Life :...
  
  , composer (died 1714)
• December 15 - Michel Richard Delalande
  Michel Richard Delalande
  Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grand motets. He also wrote orchestral suites known as "Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy" and ballets...
  
  , French composer and organist (died 1726)
• probable - Gaetano Greco
  Gaetano Greco
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  , composer (died c.1728)

Deaths

• March - John Hilton
  John Hilton (composer)
  John Hilton was an English early baroque composer. He is best known for his books Ayres or Fa-Las for Three Voices and Catch That Catch Can.- Life :...
  
  , lutenist and composer (born c.1599)
• March 26 - Jacob van Eyck
  Jacob van Eyck
  Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck was a Dutch nobleman and musician. He was one of the best-known musicians in The Netherlands in the seventeenth century as a carillon player, expert in bell casting and tuning, organist, recorder virtuoso, and composer.Van Eyck was born blind into a noble family in the...
  
  , nobleman and musician (born c.1590)
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  • Franciszek Lilius
    Franciszek Lilius
    Franciszek Lilius was a Polish composer, a descendant of the Italian Giglis family. He significantly contributed to the musical culture of Warsaw in the 17th century...
    
    , composer (born c. 1600)
  • Pietro Paolo Sabbatini
    Pietro Paolo Sabbatini
    Pietro Paolo Sabbatino was an Italian composer, orchestra director and musician, who worked mainly in Rome. He composed mostly popular songs of his time, such as villanellas, capriccios, canzones and canzonettas, but he also composed religious music works, such as psalms.His best know work are the...
    
    , composer (born 1600)