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Encyclopedia > 1657 in music

See also: 1656 in music, other events of 1657, 1658 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1655 in music, other events of 1656, 1657 in music, List of years in music // William Davenant – The Siege of Rhodes – Composers included Henry Lawes and Matthew Locke Categories: | ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... See also: 1657 in music, other events of 1658, 1659 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

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Events

  • Maurizio Cazzati opens his violin school in Bologna.[1]
  • Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna.

Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Emiliano-Romagnolo) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sàvena River. ...

Classical music

Opera

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ...

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References

  1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music (1991), Prentice Hall:Englewood Cliffs, page 152

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