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1637 in music

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The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
  • Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
  • Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
  • Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
  • Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
  • The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Classical music

  • Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
  • Tarquinio Merula – Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

Opera

  • Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda (the first publicly shown opera, premièred at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, during carnival)
  • Virgilio Mazzocchi – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12 at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome)

Births

  • February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
  • December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
  • date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
  • probable – Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

Deaths

  • May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
  • July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
  • September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
  • dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)
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