1654 in music

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Overview of the events of 1654 in music

|  | List of years in music | (table)

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* … 1644
* 1645
* 1646
* 1647
* 1648
* 1649
* 1650

* 1651
* 1652
* 1653
* 1654
* 1655
* 1656
* 1657

* 1658
* 1659
* 1660
* 1661
* 1662
* 1663
* 1664 …

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The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.[1]
* Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
* The newly formed Innsbruck opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's Cleopatra
* Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.

## Publications

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* Jacob van Eyck – Der Fluyten Lust-hof (4th edition)

## Classical music

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* Louis Couperin – Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem

## Opera

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* Antonio Maria Abbatini – Del male in bene
* Francesco Cavalli
* Ciro
* Xerse, January 12 at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
* Antonio Cesti – Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, Innsbruck, date unknown.
* Francesco Provenzale – Teseo

## Births

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* February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (died 1714)
* July 25 – Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728)
* September – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (died 1740)
* October 23 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (died 1712)
* date unknown
* Étienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)[2]
* Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
* probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)

## Deaths

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* February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610)
* March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1587)
* date unknown – Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer (born 1584)
* probable – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)

## References

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1. ^ Bethell, Leslie (1984). The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. p. 781\. ISBN 9780521245166.
2. ^ "Étienne Loulié (1654–1702)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 7 May 2019.