The year 1653 in music involved some significant events.

• The Ballet Royal de la Nuit premieres on 23 February, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
• Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
• Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour (to 1666).
• The Bavarian State Opera opera company is founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, performing Giovanni Battista Maccioni's L'arpa festante in the court theatre.^[1]

• Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume three, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

• February 12 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, Italian singer (died 1697)
• February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (died 1713)
• June 1 – Georg Muffat, composer (died 1704)
• September 1 (baptized) – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1706)

• January 14 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, patron of the arts and amateur composer (born 1595)
• February 16 – Johannes Schultz, composer (born 1582)
• February 23 – Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (born 1597)
• March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)