title: 1646 in music
text: # 1646 in music
  
  Musical events of the year 1646 in music:
  
  ## Events
  
  * Luigi Rossi is invited to Paris by Cardinal Mazarin.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Giovanni Battista Granata – Caprici armonici sopra la chittarriglia spagnuola..., a collection of music for the treble guitar, published in Bologna.
  * Andreas Hammerschmidt – Part IV of the Musicalische Andachten
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Francesco Cavalli – La prosperità infelice di Giulio Cesare dittatore (lost), with libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello
  * Giacinto Andrea Cicognini – Il Celio
  
  ## Births
  
  * July 29 – Johann Theile, composer (died 1724)
  * date unknown – Juan de Araujo, musician and composer (died 1712)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * September 11 – Johann Stobäus, composer (born 1580)
  * September 24 – Duarte Lobo, composer (born c. 1545)
  * October 3 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of sacred vocal music (born 1597)
  * date unknown – Wojciech Dębołęcki, writer and composer (born 1585)
     * Manuel Machado, Portuguese harpist and composer of cantigas and romances
     * Johann Vierdanck, German composer, violinist and cornetist (buried 1 April) (b. 1605)
  