1629 in music explained

The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.^[1]
• The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.^[2]

Classical music

• Antonio Cifra
  • Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
  • Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
  • Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Scipione Dentice – Italian: Madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
• Ignazio Donati – Italian: Madre de quatordeci figli, Latin: nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices Italian: in concerto (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
  • Latin: Prophetia Evangelica for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
  • Latin: Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
  • German: Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
  • German: Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auß dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
  • German: Aller Christgläubigen bester Trost Bey innstehenden letzten betrübten und gefährlichen Zeiten auß dem 3. Capitel der Klaglieder Jeremiae for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
  • Latin: Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
• Biagio Marini – Italian: Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8^[3]
• Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses Italian: a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Asprilio Pacelli - Latin: Missae... (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
• Heinrich Schütz – Latin: [[Symphoniae sacrae I|Symphoniae sacrae]], part 1, published in Venice^[4]

Opera

• Giovanni Rovetta – Italian: Le lagrime di Erminia^[5]

Births

• January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)^[6]
• April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)^[7]
• Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)^[8]

Deaths

• January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)^[9]
• April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)^[10]
• May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
• October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584)^[11]
• date unknown
  • Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)^[12]
  • Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)^[13]

Notes and References

1. Book: The Complete Classical Music Guide. 2012. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 9781409375968. 66. en.
2. Book: Johnson. Eugene J.. Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. 2018. Cambridge University Press. 9781108421744. 208. en.
3. Web site: Sonates. Violon, basse continue. No 4. Op. 8, no 59 - Biagio Marini (1594-1663). BnF. 27 April 2018. en. 1629.
4. Book: Schütz. Heinrich. A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. 2013. OUP USA. 9780199812202. 238. en.
5. Web site: Artek: Gerusalemme Liberata. Episcopal Church. 27 April 2018. en. 26 September 2013. 28 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180428094306/https://www.episcopalchurch.org/events/artek-gerusalemme-liberata. dead.
6. Web site: Lelio Colista (1629-1680). data.bnf.fr. 27 April 2018. en.
7. Book: Swain. Joseph P.. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music. 2013. Scarecrow Press. 9780810878259. 91. en.
8. Web site: Dering [née Harvey], Lady Mary]. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. 27 April 2018. en. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.43003. 2001. Spink. Ian.
9. Book: Unger. Melvin P.. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music. 2010. Scarecrow Press. 9780810873926. 359. en.
10. Book: Randel. Don Michael. The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 1999. Harvard University Press. 9780674000841. 315. en.
11. Web site: Cifra, Antonio. Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. 27 April 2018. en. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05775. 2001. Roche. Jerome.
12. Web site: Paolo Agostini (1583?-1629). data.bnf.fr. 27 April 2018. en.
13. Book: Green. Edward. The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington. 2015. Cambridge University Press. 9781316194133. 393. en.