The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.

Popular music

• Gerrard Winstanley - "Diggers' Song"^[1]

Classical music

• Melchior Franck - Davidischer Traur- und Trostgesang for three voices (Coburg: Johann Eyrich), a funeral motet, published posthumously
• Johann Jakob Froberger - Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite (presentation manuscript, September)
• Alberich Mazak - Cultus harmonicus, volume one, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Opera

• Pietro Cavalli - Jason
• Antonio Cesti - Orontea, premiéred at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale.

Births

• February 23 - John Blow, organist and composer
• May 3 (bapt.) - Johann Valentin Meder, organist and composer (d. 1719)
• date unknown - Johann Krieger, composer
  • John Blow, organist and composer
• probable - Jacques Boyvin, French organist and composer (died 1706)

Deaths

• April 29/30 - Giovanni Valentini, keyboard virtuoso and composer.

References