1654 in music

The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.

Events

April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.
Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
The newly formed Innsbruck opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's Cleopatra
Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.

Publications

Jacob van Eyck – ''Der Fluyten Lust-hof''

Classical music

Louis Couperin – ''Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem''

Opera

Antonio Maria Abbatini – Del male in bene
Francesco Cavalli
* Ciro
*Xerse, January 12 at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
Antonio Cesti – Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, Innsbruck, date unknown.
Francesco Provenzale – ''Teseo''

Births

February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer
July 25 – Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer
September – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer
October 23 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
date unknown
*Étienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist
*Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar
probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer

Deaths

February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician
March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer
date unknown – Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer
probable – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer