1654 in music

The year 1654 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral.
 * Georg Caspar Wecker becomes organist of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg.
 * The newly formed Innsbruck opera company open's with Antonio Cesti's Cleopatra
 * Violin maker Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri opens a workshop in Cremona.

Publications

 * Jacob van Eyck – Der Fluyten Lust-hof (4th edition)

Classical music

 * Louis Couperin – Fugue Grave sur Urbs Beata Jherusalem

Opera

 * Antonio Maria Abbatini – Del male in bene
 * Francesco Cavalli
 * Ciro
 * Xerse, January 12 at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
 * Antonio Cesti – Cleopatra, with libretto by Dario Varotari the Younger, Innsbruck, date unknown.
 * Francesco Provenzale – Teseo

Births

 * February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (died 1714)
 * July 25 – Agostino Steffani, bishop, diplomat and composer (died 1728)
 * September – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (died 1740)
 * October 23 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (died 1712)
 * date unknown
 * Étienne Loulié, French musician, teacher and music theorist (died 1702)
 * Count Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (died 1713)
 * probable – Servaes de Koninck, composer (died c.1701)

Deaths

 * February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, writer, translator and musician (born 1610)
 * March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, organist and composer (born 1587)
 * date unknown – Francisco Correa de Arauxo, organist and composer (born 1584)
 * probable – Julius Ernst Rautenstein, composer (born c.1590)