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Encyclopedia > 1648 in music

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. ...

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Events

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 SchützGeistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)

Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 - October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. ... Heinrich Schütz. ...

Classical music

Opera

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Births

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...

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