1630 in music

Events

• Giacomo Carissimi becomes the chapelmaster at the Church of San Apollinare in the German-Hungarian College in Rome.
• Ján Šimbracký buys a house in Spišské Podhradie.

Publications

• Paolo Agostini – Posthumous book of masses (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Adriano Banchieri – Trattenimenti da villa concertati in ordine seguente nel chitarrone con 5 voci in variati modi (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a collection of canzonettas for five voices and a theorbo
• Ignazio Donati – Le Fanfalughe for two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a book of madrigals
• Melchior Franck
  • Der 85. Psalm des Königlichen Propheten Davids (Herr, der du bist vormals gnädig gewest) for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a motet written for the jubilee held June 25–27, 1630
  • Neues Christliches Weyhnacht Gesang for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a Christmas motet
  • Gottfried von Bulljon oder das erlösete Jerusalem (Coburg: Johann Forckel), incidental music for an oratorio performed in Coburg on June 14, 1630
• Marco da Gagliano – Responsoria maioris hebdomadae for four voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • I pastori di Bettelemme nella nascita di N. Signor Giesu Christo (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
  • Modulatus sacri diminutis voculis concinnati, vol. 2 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Seventh book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice and guitar, Op. 17 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Martin Peerson – Mottects or grave chamber musique, containing songs of five parts of several sorts (London: William Stansby)

Classical music

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – Proserpina rapita

Births

• date unknown – Antonio Sartorio, composer (died 1680)
• probable
  • Thomas Baltzar, violinist and composer (died 1663)
  • Hafız Post, Turkish composer (died 1694)
  • Susanna van Lee, Dutch actress and dancer (died 1700)

Deaths

• February 12 or 13 – Camillo Cortellini, composer, singer, and violinist (born 1561)
• February 26 – William Brade, English composer, violinist and viol player (born 1560)
• June (or later) – Alessandro Grandi, Italian composer (born 1590)
• June 11 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer of oratorios (born c.1567)
• June 29 – John Mundy, English organist and composer (born c. 1550)
• September 7 – Giovanni Battista Fontana, composer (born 1589)
• November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (born 1586)
• date unknown – Thomas Bateson, writer of madrigals (born 1570)
• probable – Salamone Rossi, Venetian composer (born 1570)

References

References

1. Anne Schnoebelen. "Cortellini, Camillo." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press.
2. (1956). "The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians". Dodd, Mead.
3. Darryl Lyman. (1986). "Great Jews in Music". J. David Publishers.