1652 in music explained

The year 1652 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar.
• Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel.
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687) becomes court musician at Innsbruck

Publications

• Henry Du Mont – Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music

Classical music

• Denis Gaultier – Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute pieces^[1]

Opera

• Antonio Bertali – Niobe
• Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea

Births

• April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, composer of hymns (died 1712)
• May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer and doctor (died 1732)
• date unknown – Diego Xaraba, composer (died 1715)

Deaths

• February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582)
• April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, traveller, composer and writer on music (born 1586)
• November – Charles Fleury, lutenist (born c.1605)
• date unknown – Filipe de Magalhães, choirmaster and composer (born c.1571)

References

1. Book: Palisca, Claude V. . Baroque Music . 1968 . 3rd . Prentice Hall History of Music . 1991 . . . 0-13-058496-7 . 190 .