1655 in music

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The year 1655 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Composer Johann Rosenmüller is imprisoned as the result of a scandal concerning alleged homosexual activities.

Classical music

• Giovanni Legrenzi – Op. 2, a collection of sonatas

Opera

• Giuseppe Alfiero – La fedeltà trionfante (lost)

Births

• May 4 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano (died 1731)
• August 13 – Johann Christoph Denner, wind instrument maker (died 1707)
• probable – Robert de Visée, lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and violin player (died c.1732)

Deaths

• April 4 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, organist and composer (born 1616)
• July 30 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (born 1607)