| Year |
Event |
| 1651 |
Heinrich Albert, German composer, dies |
| 1651 |
The young King Louis XIV of France appears as a dancer in a court ballet |
| 1652 |
Gregorio Allegri, Italian tenor and composer dies |
| 1652 |
John Hilton:"Catch as catch can," collection of catches, rounds and canons |
| 1652 |
The minuet comes into fashion at French court |
| 1652 |
First opera house in Vienna |
| 1653 |
Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer, born |
| 1653 |
Matthew Locke's music for James Shirley's masque, "Cupid and Death" |
| 1653 |
Lully made director of "les petits-violins du roi" |
| 1653 |
Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist, born |
| 1654 |
Samuel Scheidt, German composer and organist, dies |
| 1655 |
Sigmund Gottlieb Staden, German composer and organist, dies |
| 1656 |
Opening fo first London opera house |
| 1656 |
"The Siege of Rhodes," opera with music by Matthew Locke and others, given at Rutland House, London |
| 1657 |
Michel de Lalande, French composer and organist, born |
| 1657 |
Adam Kreiger:"Deutsche Lieder" |
| 1658 |
Johann Caspar von Kerll "Applausi Festivi," opera, Munich |
| 1659 |
Henry Purcell, English composer, born |
| 1659 |
Allesandro Scarlatti, Italian composer, born |
| 1660 |
Cavalli:"Serse," Opera for the marraige of Louis XIV |
| 1660 |
Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and music theorist born |
| 1661 |
Academie Royale di Danse founded by Louis XIV |
| 1661 |
Matthew Locke made court composer to Charles II |
| 1661 |
Edward Lowe:"Short Direction for the Performance of Cathedral Services," to revive organ accompaniment suppressed during commonwealth |
| 1662 |
Johann Cruger, German composer dies |
| 1662 |
Cavalli: "Ercole amante,"Italian baller opera, ( performed in Paris) |
| 1663 |
Marc' Antonio Cesti: "La Dori," Italian opera |
| 1663 |
James Clifford: "The Divine Services and Anthems," first collection of words and anthems published in London |
| 1663 |
Lully: "Le Ballet des arts" |
| 1664 |
French horn becomes an orchestral instrument |
| 1664 |
Heinrich Schutz: "Christmas Oratorio," Dresden |
| 1665 |
Giuseppe Aldrovandini, Italian composer, born |
| 1665 |
Heinrich Schutz: "Johannes Passion" |
| 1666 |
Marc' Antonio Cesti made court Kappelmeister in Vienna |
| 1666 |
Adam Kreiger, German composer, dies |
| 1666 |
Heinrich Schutz: " Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrens Jesu Christi" |
| 1666 |
Antonio Stradivari labels his first violin |
| 1667 |
Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer, dies |
| 1667 |
Carlo Pallavicino becomes court Kapellmeister in Dresden |
| 1668 |
Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist of St. Mary's, Lubeck |
| 1668 |
Francois Couperin, French composer, born |
| 1668 |
Thomas Tomkins: "Musica Deo sacra" (posth.) |
| 1669 |
Royal patent for founding Academie Royale des Operas granted to Pierre Perrin |
| 1669 |
Marc' Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, dies |
| 1669 |
Matthew Locke: "The Treasury of Musick" |
| 1670 |
John Blow becomes organist of Westminster Abbey |
| 1671 |
Paris Opera opened with Robert Cambert's opera "Pomone" |
| 1671 |
Francesco (son of Antonio) Stradivari, Italian violin maker, born |
| 1672 |
First public concert at Whitefriars, London, given by violinist John Banister |
| 1672 |
Heinrich Schutz, German composer, dies |
| 1673 |
Buxtehude begins at Lubeck his famous "Abendmusiken" concerts |
| 1673 |
Matthew Locke: "The Present Practice of Music Vindicated" |
| 1673 |
Lully: " Cadmus et Hermoine," opera, first given in Paris |
| 1674 |
John Wilson, English singer and composer, dies |
| 1674 |
Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer, dies |
| 1674 |
Reinhard Keiser, German composer, born |
| 1674 |
Lully: "Alceste," opera Paris |
| 1675 |
Andreas Hammerschmidt, German church composer, dies |
| 1675 |
Matthew Locke: "incidental music to Thomas Shadwell's "Psyche" |
| 1675 |
Antionio Vivaldi, Italian composer, born |
Music History Timeline - 1651 to 1675
