1644. G.B. Vitali (Cremona), about 1644. Important violist, and composer of chamber music during the period leading up to the time of Corelli.
1644. Antonio Stradivari (Cremona), 1644-1737. The great Cremona violin maker.
1649. Johann P. Krieger (Nuremberg), 1649-1725. German chamber music composer. Twenty-four of his sonatas for two violins and bass have survived.
1650. Guarneri (Cremona), 1650-1745. Name of the famous family of violin makers.
1650. N. Hasse (Rostock), about 1650. He wrote dances (courantes, etc.) for strings and theorbo, a bass instrument of the lute order.
1650. Nicolaus Kempis (Florence), about 1650. He resided in Brussels in the middle of the seventeenth century. His chamber music was regarded as among the best written during his time.
1653. Corelli (Fusignano), 1653-1713. Eminent violinist and composer of important chamber music.
1655. J.H. Schmelzer (Vienna), about 1655. Chamber musician at the court of Vienna, who published various sonatas for strings and wind.
1655. Steffani (Castelfranco), 1655-1730. Venetian composer of high rank, who lived chiefly in Germany. His vocal chamber duets are his more important works, but he also wrote chamber music for strings.
1655. J. Christoph Denner (Nuremberg), 1655-1707. A musical instrument maker, to whom is attributed (about the year 1700) the invention of the clarinet.