1631 in music explained

The year 1631 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 9 – The masque Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; the work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
• In Venice, the plague outbreak of 1629 - 1631, after reducing the population by one third, comes to an end. Claudio Monteverdi writes a mass for a service of thanksgiving, held at St Mark's Basilica.
• Marco Marazzoli is one of several musicians who accompany Cardinal Antonio Barberini on a visit to Urbino.
• Earliest known bentside spinet, made by Hieronymus de Zentis.^[1]

Publications

• Christoph Demantius – German: Deutsche Passion, nach dem Evangelisten S. Iohanne for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann)
• Melchior Franck
  • Latin: Dulces mundani exilii deliciae for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of sacred songs
  • Latin: Psalmodia sacra for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets
  • German: Hertzlicher Seufftzer der Christlichen Kirchen in Deutschland for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a motet of national consolation, setting Psalm 122
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • Latin: Missa Urbanae, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)^[2]
  • Latin: Litaniae Deiparae Virginis, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• Filipe de Magalhães – Book of Masses (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck)^[3]
• Thomas Morley – an edition of his canzonets.
• Cornelis Padbrué – Dutch; Flemish: Kusjes (collection of madrigals)
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Italian: Sacre canzoni musicali..., book three (Messina: Pietro Brea)

Classical music

• Claudio Monteverdi  - Mass of Thanksgiving^[4]

Opera

• Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.^[5]

Births

• October – Pierre Beauchamp, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1705)^[6]
• October 3 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (died 1712)

Deaths

• January 3 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (born 1575)
• March 24 – Philipp Dulichius, composer (born 1562)
• August 6 – Juan Blas de Castro, singer and composer (born 1561)
• date unknown – Christoph Straus, German choral composer (born 1575)

Notes and References

1. [Frank Hubbard]
2. Book: Karlheinz Schlager. Einzeldrucke vor 1800. 1975. Bärenreiter-Verlag. 978-3-7618-0512-1. 12. de.
3. Book: Bonnie J. Blackburn. Uno Gentile Et Subtile Ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn. 2009. Brepols. 978-2-503-53163-2. 393–4.
4. Book: John Stanley. Classical Music: An Introduction to Classical Music Through the Great Composers & Their Masterworks. May 1997. Reader's Digest Association. 978-0-89577-947-2. 77.
5. Margaret Murata, "Land, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).
6. Book: Harris-Warrick, Rebecca . Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera . 2016-10-27 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-13789-9 . 99 . en.