The year 1658 in music involved some significant events. Events Johann Jacob Froberger leaves Vienna for the last time. Sir William Davenant's "operatic show," The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, is staged at the Cockpit Theatre in London during the summer. Publications Antoine de Cousu – Musique universelle, contenant toute la pratique, et toute la théorie Johann Jacob Froberger – Libro terzo, A-Wn Mus.Hs.16560 Henry Lawes – Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, vol. 3 Etienne Moulinié – Meslanges de sujets Chrestiens ... avec une basse continue, a collection of sacred music Classical music Johann Rudolf Ahle -- Ich hab's gewagt Louis Couperin – Ave Maris Stella, OL 9 Andreas Hammerschmidt – chorale: Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, after Christian Keymann's hymn Jean-Baptiste Lully – Ballet d'Alcidiane, LWV 9 Opera Johann Caspar Kerll – Applausi Festivi Births April 22 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (died 1709) October 11 – Christian Heinrich Postel, librettist (died 1705) date unknown Maria Francesca Nascimbeni, Italian composer (died 1680) Johann Georg Rauch I, composer (died 1710) probable – Jean Desfontaines, composer (died c.1752) Deaths March – Valentin Dretzel, composer September 17 – Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, lyricist August 11 – Antoine de Cousu, composer and theorist August 27 – Stefano Fabri, Jr., musician November 15 – Jacobus Revius, lyricist probable Dario Castello, Italian composer (born c.1590) Henry Ferrabosco, English court musician References 17th century in music Music by year