1649 in music

The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.

Popular music

 * Gerrard Winstanley – "Diggers' Song"

Classical music

 * Melchior Franck – Davidischer Traur- und Trostgesang for three voices (Coburg: Johann Eyrich), a funeral motet, published posthumously
 * Johann Jakob Froberger – Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite (presentation manuscript, September)
 * Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume one, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Opera

 * Pietro Cavalli – Jason
 * Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale.

Births

 * February 23 – John Blow, organist and composer
 * May 3 (bapt.) – Johann Valentin Meder, organist and composer (d. 1719)
 * date unknown – Johann Krieger, composer
 * John Blow, organist and composer
 * probable – Jacques Boyvin, French organist and composer (died 1706)

Deaths

 * April 29/30 – Giovanni Valentini, keyboard virtuoso and composer.