1654 in music

The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.

Events

January 12 – Première of Francesco Cavalli's opera Xerse at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.
Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
Antonio Cesti's opera Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, becomes the first production by the newly formed Innsbruck opera company.
Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.

February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (died 1714)
July 25 – Agostino Steffani, churchman, 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, musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)
- Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)

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