1615 in music explained

Events

• April – After a few months' employment at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando I Gonzaga, Girolamo Frescobaldi returns to Rome.^[1]

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, and four voices, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• John Amner – Sacred hymnes of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts for voyces and vyols (London: Edwin Allde)
• Severo Bonini
  • Italian: Affetti spirituali for two voices, Op. 7 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
  • Italian: Serena celeste, motets for one, two, and three voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Bernardino Borlasca – Latin: Cantica divae Mariae Virginis (Magnificat) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 5 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Joachim a Burck – German: Schöne Geistliche Lieder über alle Evangelia auff jede Fest unnd Sontage durchs gantze Jahr (Erfurt: Martin Wittel for Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold, published posthumously
• Antonio Cifra
  • Eighth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 17 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Fourth book of Italian: Li diversi scherzi for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 20 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Camillo Cortellini – Italian: Letanie della B. Vergine for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Christoph Demantius
  • German: Neuer deutsche lieder (New German Songs) for five voices, part 2 (Leipzig: Valentin am Ende's Erben for Thomas Schüler)
  • Latin: Tympanum militare for five, six, eight, and ten voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann)
• Thomas Elsbeth – Latin: Festorum paschalis et pentecostes officium for five voices (Liegnitz: Nikolaus Sartorius), music for Easter and Pentecost, including introits, masses, and sequences
• Melchior Franck
  • Latin: Threnodiae Davidicae for six voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopol Fuhrmann), a setting of the penitential psalms
  • Latin: Fasciculus Quodlibeticus for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann), a collection of quodlibets
  • German: Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem ersten und dritten Capitel deß Ersten Buchs Moisis for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • German: Newes Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 19. Capitel Matthæi for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • German: Das Erste Evangelium unsern Ersten Eltern im Paradiß geschehen for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday motet
  • German: Trostgesänglein ausz dem Fünfften Capittel Jobs for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a funeral motet
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni
• Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Latin: Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, for six to nineteen voices and instruments (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously
  • Italian: Canzoni et sonate for three to twenty-two instruments with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously
• Marco da Gagliano – Italian: Musiche for one, two, and three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Andreas Hakenberger – Latin: Sacri modulorum concentus for eight voices and instruments (Stettin: Johann Duber)
• Hans Leo Hassler – German: Venusgarten for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), a collection of instrumental music, published posthumously. Most of the pieces are by Valentin Haussmann.
• Sigismondo d'India
  • Third book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
  • Italian: Le musiche a due voci (Music for Two Voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • First book of Italian: sinfonie for four with basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • First book of Italian: balli, gagliarde, & correnti for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Elias Mertel – Latin: Hortus musicalis novus (New Musical Garden) (Strasbourg: Anton Bertram), a collection of lute music
• Pietro Pace
  • The fifth book of motets..., Op. 10 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Italian: Il primo libro de scherzi et arie spirituali..., Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Francesco Pasquali – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Classical music

• Sethus Calvisius – German: Schwanengesang (Swan song) a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, performed for the first time at his funeral, November 27
• Alessandro Grandi – Latin: Plorabo die ac nocte, a motet for four voices

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – Il ballo delle zigane (lost)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Second edition of L'Orfeo

Births

• September 16 – Heinrich Bach, German organist (died 1692)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Faustini, librettist and opera impresario (died 1651)
  • Christopher Gibbons, organist and composer (died 1676)
• probable – Francesca Campana, singer, spinet player and composer (died 1665)

Deaths

• June 15 – Innocentio Alberti, Italian cornet player and composer (born c. 1535)
• August 7 – Melchior Vulpius, German composer, primarily of sacred music (born c.1570)
• November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, music theorist, composer and astronomer (born 1556)

Notes and References

1. Hammond, Frederick. Girolamo Frescobaldi.47, 54.