1653 in music

Events

• The Ballet Royal de la Nuit premieres on 23 February, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
• Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
• Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour.
• The Bavarian State Opera opera company is founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, performing Giovanni Battista Maccioni's L'arpa festante in the court theatre.

Classical music

Opera

• Antonio Maria Abbatini – Dal male il bene
• Antonio Bertali – L'inganno d'amore
• Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy – ''Andromède''

Publications

• Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume three, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Births

• February 12 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, Italian singer
• February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist
• June 1 – Georg Muffat, composer
• September 1 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer

Deaths

• January 14 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, patron of the arts and amateur composer
• February 16 – Johannes Schultz, composer
• February 23 – Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas
• March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer