1658 in music

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