See also: 1647 in music, other events of 1648, 1649 in music, List of years in music 1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... See also: 1648 in music, other events of 1649, 1650 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
End of the Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Events March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
Publications
Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes
Heinrich Schütz – Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)
Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 - October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. ... Heinrich Schütz. ...
August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... Johann Michael Bach (August 9, 1648 - May, 1694) was a German composer of the Baroque period. ... Events February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... A Schnitger Pipe Organ Arp Schnitger (1648-1719) was a highly skilled and influential German organ builder. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused...
During the Fronde, Parisians rose in rebellion and the royal family fled the city (1648).
Many of France's greatest musical legends such as Édith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Georges Brassens and Charles Aznavour found their fame in Paris concert halls: legendary yet still-showing examples of these are Bobino, l'Olympia, la Cigale and le Splendid.
Electronic music oriented clubs such as Le Rex, the Batofar (a boat converted into a club) or The Pulp are quite popular and the world's best DJs play there.