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The year 1650 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Publications

• Alberich Mazak - Cultus harmonicus, volume two, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Classical music

• Claudio Monteverdi - Messa a quattro voci, et Salmi (Mass for four voices, and Psalms) (published posthumously)
• Heinrich Schütz - Symphoniae sacrae, part 3
• probable
  • Giovanni Battista Abatessa - Ghirlanda di varii fiori (Garland of Various Flowers), a collection of guitar music, published in Milan
  • Giovanni Battista Granata - Nuove suonate di chitarriglia spagnuola piccicate, e battute..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna

Opera

• Francesco Cavalli - Orimonte

Births

• date unknown
  • Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (d. 1680)
  • André Raison, organist and composer (d. 1719)
• probable
  • Cataldo Amodei, opera composer (d. c. 1695)
  • Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier
  • Robert de Visée, luthenist, guitarist and viol player (d. 1725)

Deaths

• November 24 - Manuel Cardoso, organist and composer (b. 1566)
• date unknown
  • Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
  • Francesco Sacrati, composer (b. 1605)