1651 in music

The year 1651 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * none listed

Publications

 * Giovanni Battista Granata – Nuova scielta di capricci armonici..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
 * Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci del signor Claudio Monteverde già Maestro di Cappella della Serenissima Republica di Venetia... Libro nono (Ninth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), published posthumously
 * Stefano Pasino – Motetti a 2. 3. 4. concertati..., Op. 6 (Venice: Francesco Magni for Gardano)
 * John Playford – The English Dancing Master

Classical music

 * none listed

Opera

 * Francesco Cavalli – premier of La Calisto, Venice (November 28) and L'Eritrea

Births

 * February 25 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer (died 1735)
 * April 15 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (died 1690)
 * June – Johann Georg Ahle, organist and composer (died 1706)
 * July 22 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer (died 1711)
 * December 28 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (died 1735)

Deaths

 * January 17 – Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, lutenist (born c. 1580)
 * October 6 – Heinrich Albert (born 1604), German composer and poet
 * November 18 – Bonifatio Ceretti, alto castrato (intended Endimione in La Calisto)
 * December 17 – Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (born c. 1575)
 * December 19 – Giovanni Faustini, librettist for Francesco Cavalli (born 1615)
 * probable – Martin Peerson, English composer, organist, and virginalist (born c. 1571)