1655 in music
# 1655 in music

The year 1655 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Composer Johann Rosenmüller is imprisoned as the result of a scandal concerning alleged homosexual activities.

## Classical music

* Giovanni Legrenzi – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas

## Opera

* Giuseppe Alfiero – La fedeltà trionfante (lost)

## Births

* May 4 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano (died 1731)
* August 13 – Johann Christoph Denner, wind instrument maker (died 1707)
* probable – Robert de Visée, lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and violin player (died c.1732)

## Deaths

* April 4 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, organist and composer (born 1616)
* July 30 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (born 1607)
