1650 in music

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The year 1650 in music involved some significant events.

Publications

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

Classical music

• Claudio Monteverdi – Messa a quattro voci, et Salmi (Mass for four voices, and Psalms) (published posthumously)
• Samuel Scheidt – Tabulatur-Buch
• Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae sacrae, part 3
• probable
  • Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Ghirlanda di varii fiori (Garland of Various Flowers), a collection of guitar music, published in Milan
  • Giovanni Battista Granata – Nuove suonate di chitarriglia spagnuola piccicate, e battute..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna

Opera

• Francesco Cavalli – Orimonte

Births

• date unknown
  • Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (d. 1680)
  • André Raison, organist and composer (d. 1719)
• probable
  • Cataldo Amodei, opera composer (d. c. 1695)
  • Papanasa Mudaliar, Carnatic music composer (d. 1725)
  • Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier
  • Robert de Visée, luthenist, guitarist and viol player (d. 1725)

Deaths

• May 20 - Francesco Sacrati, composer (b. 1605)
• November 24 – Manuel Cardoso, organist and composer (b. 1566)
• date unknown - Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist