1654 in music
# 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 (4th edition)

## 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 (died 1714)
* July 25 – Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728)
* September – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (died 1740)
* October 23 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (died 1712)
* date unknown
   * Étienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)
   * Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
* probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)

## Deaths

* February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610)
* March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1587)
* date unknown – Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer (born 1584)
* probable – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)
