1632 in music explained

The year 1632 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• December 29 – Just over halfway through a three-year contract as maestro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, Tarquinio Merula is dismissed for "indecency manifested towards several of his pupils."^[1]
• Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
• William Child becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Publications

• Melchior Franck
  • German: Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a celebratory motet
  • German: Christliche Dancksagung zu unserm Neugebornen Jesulein (Christian thanksgiving for our newborn baby Jesus) for seven and eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), three Christmas motets
• Claudio Monteverdi – Second book of Italian: Scherzi musicali (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of arias and madrigals
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of Messe brevi concertate a otto voci, Op. 10
• Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres

Opera

• Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.^[2]

Births

• February 18 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer (died 1692)
• April 2 (baptised) – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (died 1695)
• November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer (died 1687)

Deaths

• December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck, Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister (born c.1570)

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. Margaret Murata, "Landi, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).