The year 1649 in music involved some significant events.
Popular music
Gerrard Winstanley – "Diggers' Song"
Classical music
Melchior Franck – 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.