1627 in music explained

The year 1627 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 13 – Tarquinio Merula is officially appointed maestro di cappella in Cremona, after having been elected provisionally the previous year.^[1]
• June 21 – Christopher Gibbons election as a scholar of the Charterhouse is approved by the Governors, following his nomination in January through the Signet Office.^[2]

Published music

• Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Italian: Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
• Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Carlo Farina
  • German: Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
  • Italian: Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
• Melchior Franck
  • Latin: Deliciae convivales for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friederich Gruner), a collection of intradas
  • German: Neues fröhliches musikalisches Concert for seven voices and organ bass (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
  • German: Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung auß den recht schönen tröstlichen Worten Esai. 43. Fürchte dich nicht denn ich habe dich erlöset for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
• Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Italian: Concerto sacro di salmi intieri for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)

Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il secondo libro di toccate
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Tabulaturbuch, 40 variations on Vater unser

Opera

• Heinrich Schütz – Dafne

Births

• April 9 – Johann Caspar Kerll, organist and composer (died 1693)

Deaths

• March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer (born 1555)
• May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
• August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557)
• November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer (born 1565)
• December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
• date unknown
  • Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer (born 1556)
  • Leone Leoni, composer (born c.1560)

Notes and References

1. Stephen Bonta, "Merula, Tarquinio", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. Christopher D. S. Field, "Gibbons, Christopher", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).