1649 in music

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The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.

Classical music

• Johann Jakob Froberger – Libro secundo
• 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

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

Deaths

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