Events

• Jean-Baptiste Lully
  Jean-Baptiste Lully
  Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
  
   marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert
  Michel Lambert
  Michel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher...
  
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Births

• probable – Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier
  Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier
  Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, nicknamed Giovannino del Violone was a Baroque Italian composer, cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent.-Life:...
  
  , composer, cellist and trombone player (died 1700)

Deaths

• January 26 – Marco Marazzoli
  Marco Marazzoli
  Marco Marazzoli was an Italian priest and composer.-Early life:Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini...
  
  , Italian composer of cantatas (born c.1602 or 1608)
• February 23 – Johann Crüger
  Johann Crüger
  Johann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns.Crüger was born in Groß Breesen as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received his first musical training from Paulus...
  
  , composer (born 1598)
• May 7 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
  Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
  Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered a Camaldolese convent in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the convent organist, and by Ottavio Vernizzi who was the unofficial music master...
  
  , singer, organist, and composer (born 1590)
• July 7 – Andreas Düben
  Andreas Düben
  Andreas Düben was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. He was born near Leipzig and was admitted to Leipzig University in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck from 1614 until 1620 when he secured a position as organist in the...
  
  , organist and composer (born c. 1597)
• October 21 – Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...
  
  , composer (born 1595)