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1623 music
The year 1623 in music involved some significant events.
Events
Drum cymbals are first made commercially by the predecessor of the Avedis Zildjian Company at Constantinople in Ottoman Turkey. Zildjian ˈ z ɪ l dʒ i ən cymbals were created in 1618 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering. Avedis was given the name of Zildjian (Zilciyân) by the Sultan Osman II[3] (from the Turkish word zil cymbal, dji maker/seller, -ian a common suffix used in Armenian last names) and begins an industry in this year, the details of whose main product remain secret for generations as it becomes family tradition that only the company's heirs would know the manufacturing process. The company will still be operating, from Massachusetts, in the 21st century.
Publications
Antonio Cifra – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
Ignazio Donati – it Salmi boscarecci (Pastoral psalms) for six voices plus a six-voice ripieno (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), also includes a mass
Melchior Franck
la Gemmulæ Evangeliorum Musicae for four voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), settings of gospel texts for the whole year
de Neues liebliches Musicalisches Lustgärtlein for five, six, and eight voices or instruments (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of secular songs
de Viertzig Neue Deutzsche lustige Musicalische Täntze for four, five, and six voices or instruments (Coburg: Salomon Gruner), a collection of songs and dances
de Newes fröliches Hochzeitgesang Auß dem 4. Capitel deß Hohenlieds Salomonis for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
de Newes Fröliches Hochzeitgesang Auß dem Ersten Capittel deß Hohenlieds Salomonis for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a wedding motet
de Neues Christliches Grabgesänglein (Hilff Helffer hilff) for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a funeral motet
Orlando Gibbons – The Hymns and Songs of the Church (London: George Wither)
Sigismondo d'India – Fifth book of it le musiche for solo voice and accompaniment (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
Second book of arias (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
Fourth book of it villanelle for one and more voices with guitar (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
Carlo Milanuzzi – Third book of it ariose vaghezze for solo voice and accompaniment, Op. 9 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Claudio Monteverdi – it Lamento d'Arianna (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni), the only surviving excerpt from his opera, it L'Arianna
Peter Philips – la Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis, in ecclesia Loretana cani solitae for four, five, six, eight, and nine voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
Alessandro Piccinini – it Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone, Libro Primo (Bologna: the heirs of Giovanni Paolo Moscatelli)
Isaac Posch – la Harmonia Concertans for one, two, three, and four voices or instruments with organ bass (Nuremberg: Simon Halbmayer)
Classical music
Salamone Rossi – he השירים אשר לשלמה The Songs of Solomon Ha-shirim asher l'Shlomo, a collection of Jewish liturgical music
Births
July 6 – Jacopo Melani, violinist and composer (died 1676)
August 5 – Antonio Cesti, composer (died 1669)
date unknown – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist and composer (died 1688)
probable – Dietrich Becker, violinist and composer (died c.1679)
Deaths
January/February – Mogens Pedersøn, instrumentalist and composer (born c.1583)
May 4 – Asprilio Pacelli, composer (born 1570)
May 5 – Philip Rosseter, musician and composer (born 1567/8)
June 11 – Gutierre Fernández, South American composer and priest of Spanish birth (born c. 1547)Robert Stevenson Egberto Bermudez 2001 Fernández (Hidalgo), Gutierre Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09500
July 4 – William Byrd, composer (born 1543)
November 30 – Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
date unknown
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, composer, teacher and singing master (born c.1560)
Tulsidas, Hindu philosopher, composer, and poet (born 1532)
References
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