Overview of the events of 1651 in music
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The year 1651 in music involved some significant events.
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 (Ninth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), published posthumously
- Stefano Pasino – Motetti a 2. 3. 4. concertati..., Op. 6 (Venice: Francesco Magni for Gardano)
- John Playford – The English Dancing Master
Classical music
- none listed
Opera
- Francesco Cavalli – premier of La Calisto, Venice (November 28) and L'Eritrea
Births
- February 25 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer (died 1735)
- April 15 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (died 1690)
- June – Johann Georg Ahle, organist and composer (died 1706)
- July 22 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer (died 1711)
- December 28 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (died 1735)
Deaths
- January 17 – Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, lutenist (born c. 1580)
- October 6 – Heinrich Albert (born 1604), German composer and poet
- November 18 – Bonifatio Ceretti, alto castrato (intended Endimione in La Calisto)
- December 17 – Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (born c. 1575)
- December 19 – Giovanni Faustini, librettist for Francesco Cavalli (born 1615)
- probable – Martin Peerson, English composer, organist, and virginalist (born c. 1571)