1651 in music

Events

• ''none listed''

Publications

• Giovanni Battista Granata - Nuova scielta di capricci armonici..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
• Claudio Monteverdi - Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci del signor Claudio Monteverde già Maestro di Cappella della Serenissima Republica di Venetia... Libro nono, published posthumously
• Stefano Pasino – Motetti a 2. 3. 4. concertati..., Op. 6
• John Playford - ''The English Dancing Master''

Classical music

• ''none listed''

[Opera]

• Francesco Cavalli - premier of La Calisto, Venice and ''L'Eritrea''

Births

• February 25 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
• April 15 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer
• June – Johann Georg Ahle, organist and composer
• July 22 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer
• December 28 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer

Deaths

• January 17 – Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, lutenist
• October 6 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet
• November 18 – Bonifatio Ceretti, alto castrato
• December 17 – Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer
• December 19 – Giovanni Faustini, librettist for Francesco Cavalli
• probable – Martin Peerson, English composer, organist, and virginalist