1629 in music

Events

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

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 – Madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
• Ignazio Donati – Madre de quatordeci figli, nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices in concerto (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
  • Prophetia Evangelica for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
  • Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
  • Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
  • Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auß dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
  • 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
  • Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
• Biagio Marini – Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8
• Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Asprilio Pacelli - Missae... (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
• Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae sacrae, part 1, published in Venice

Opera

• Giovanni Rovetta – Le lagrime di Erminia

Births

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

Deaths

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

References

References

1. (2012). "The Complete Classical Music Guide". Dorling Kindersley Limited.
2. (2018). "Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy". Cambridge University Press.
3. (1629). "Sonates. Violon, basse continue. No 4. Op. 8, no 59 - Biagio Marini (1594-1663)".
4. (2013). "A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation". OUP USA.
5. (26 September 2013). "Artek: Gerusalemme Liberata".
6. "Lelio Colista (1629-1680)".
7. (2013). "Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music". Scarecrow Press.
8. (2001). "Dering [née Harvey], Lady Mary". Oxford University Press.
9. (2010). "Historical Dictionary of Choral Music". Scarecrow Press.
10. (1999). "The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians". Harvard University Press.
11. (2001). "Cifra, Antonio". Oxford University Press.
12. "Paolo Agostini (1583?-1629)".
13. (2015). "The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington". Cambridge University Press.