1649 in music
The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.
Popular music
Classical music
- Melchior Franck – Davidischer Traur- und Trostgesang for three voices, a funeral motet, published posthumously
- Johann Jakob Froberger – Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite
- Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume one, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna
[Opera]
- Pietro Cavalli – Jason
- Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale.
Births
- February 23 – John Blow, organist and composer
- May 3 – Johann Valentin Meder, organist and composer
- date unknown – Johann Krieger, composer
- *John Blow, organist and composer
- probable – Jacques Boyvin, French organist and composer
Deaths
- April 29/30 – Giovanni Valentini, keyboard virtuoso and composer.