See also: 1657 in music, other events of 1658, 1659 in music, list of years in music. Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – October 29, 1675), the Orpheus of Zittau, was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era. ...
April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (Verona, April 22, 1658 - Bologna, February 8, 1709) was an Italian violinist, pedagogue and composer. ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ...
The music of the early baroque was composed in a style that was very similar the music of the renaissance era.
The baroque era culminated with the exalted music of J.S. Bach, whose three sons were among the first exponents of the new music of the classical era: the era that followed the baroque.
Sacred music during the renaissance period was sung in the a cappella choral style that was its trademark.
In Jan Steen's Music Master of about 1659 or Frans van Mieris's The Duet of 1658, for example, figures are engrossed in each other and in the making of music.
In Officer and Laughing Girl, The Glass of Wine, and The Girl with the Wineglass, his attempts at rendering an action, whether it be laughing, drinking, or smiling, resulted in rather forced and artificial poses.
Music is often associated with love, an association that is reinforced in this instance by the painting on the back wall.