1648 in music

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The year 1648 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• End of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
• December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.

Publications

• Johann Rudolph Ahle – Compendium per tenellis
• Francesco Corbetta – Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
• Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes
• Heinrich Schütz – Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)

Classical music

• Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Scherzi di sacra melodia a voce sola

Opera

• none listed

Births

• July 9 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
• August 9 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)

Deaths

• November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580)
• unknown – Michael East, English composer (born c.1580)