| Year |
Event |
| 1626 |
Professorship of music founded at Oxford University by William Heather |
| 1626 |
Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer born |
| 1627 |
Heinrich Shcutz:"Dafne, first german opera, libretto by Martin Opitz, given at Torgau |
| 1627 |
Lodivico Viadan, Italian composer, dies |
| 1628 |
John Bull, English composer, dies |
| 1628 |
Robert Cambert, French composer, born |
| 1628 |
Marco da Gagliano:"Flora," opera |
| 1628 |
Heinrich Schutz becomes Monteverdi's pupil at Venice |
| 1629 |
Paolo Agostini, Italian composer, dies |
| 1629 |
Heinrich Schutz:"Sinfoniae sacrae" |
| 1630 |
Girolamo Frescobaldi:"Arie musicale" |
| 1630 |
Johann Hermann, German composer, dies |
| 1631 |
Philipp Dulchius, German composer, dies |
| 1632 |
Jean Baptiste Lully, French - Italian composer,born |
| 1632 |
Monteverdi takes holy orders |
| 1633 |
Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and inventor of the recitative, dies |
| 1634 |
Adam Krieger, German composer, born |
| 1635 |
Frescobaldi:"Fiori musicali di toccate,"which influences J.S. Bach |
| 1636 |
French theorist Marin Mersenne publishes his most important work, "Harmonie Universille," with full descriptions of all contemporary musical instruments |
| 1636 |
Schutz:"Kleine geistliche Concerten" collection of motets |
| 1637 |
Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish composer, born |
| 1637 |
Teatro San Cassiano, first public opera house, opens in Venice, sponsored by the Tron family |
| 1638 |
Monteverdi:"Eight Book of Madrigals" |
| 1639 |
Marco Marazzoli and Vergilio Mazzochi:"Chi soffre, speri," first comic opera |
| 1639 |
Monteverdi's opera,"Adone" given at Teatro San Cassiano, Venice |
| 1640 |
John Bull, English composer, dies |
| 1641 |
John Barnard:"First Booke of Selected Church Musick" |
| 1641 |
Monteverdi:"Il Ritono d Ulisse in patria,"opera |
| 1642 |
Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer, dies |
| 1642 |
Monteverdi:"L'Incoronazione di Poppea," given at Europe's second public opera house, Teatro di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice |
| 1643 |
Griolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer dies |
| 1643 |
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer, dies |
| 1643 |
Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer, dies |
| 1643 |
Cavalli:"Egisto" opera |
| 1644 |
Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker, born |
| 1644 |
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, German composer, born |
| 1645 |
Lully made violinist at French court |
| 1645 |
Mazarin call a Venetian opera company to Paris |
| 1645 |
"La Finta Pazza" By Francesco Paolo Sacrati given as possibly the first opera in Paris |
| 1645 |
Heinrich Schutz:"Die sieben Worte Chriti am Kruez" Oratorio |
| 1646 |
Johann Stobaeus, German composer, dies |
| 1646 |
Johann Theile, German singer and composer, born |
| 1647 |
Pelham Humfrey, English composer, born |
| 1648 |
Aria and recitative become two distinct entities in opera |
| 1648 |
John Blow, English musician, born |
| 1648 |
Heinrich Schutz:"Musicalia ad chorum sacrum" |
| 1648 |
Johann Stadlmayr, German composer, dies |
| 1649 |
Cavalli:"Giasome" opera |
| 1649 |
Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer, born |
| 1650 |
Beginning of modern harmony; development of modulation |
| 1650 |
Athanasius Kircher:"Musurgia universalis" theory |
| 1650 |
The overture as musical form emerges in two types, Italian and French |
Music History Timeline - 1626 to 1650
