1621 in music

none thumb | right | alt=Cover of a modern facsimile edition of Dario Castello's Sonate concertate, a collection of instrumental sonatas first published in 1621. | Cover of a modern facsimile edition of Dario Castello's Sonate concertate, first published in 1621. 1621 music The year 1621 in music involved some significant events. Events January 6 – Andrea Salvadori's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.*Harness, Kelley Ann (2006). Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. University of Chicago Press. 0-226-31659-9, pp. 179-180 August 3 – The masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed for the first time; it is repeated twice more in August and September. The masque features the music of Nicholas Lanier. The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples. Publications Gregor Aichinger – Corolla eucharistica, ex variis flosculis et gemmulis pretiosis musicarum sacrarum (A Little Eucharistic Crown, woven from various little flowers and precious little gems of sacred music) (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius) Gregorio Allegri – Motets for two, three, four, five, and six voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi) Giovanni Francesco Anerio – it I lieti scherzi (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of arias, villanellas, and madrigals William Brade – de Newe lustige Volten, Couranten, Balletten, Padoanen, Galliarden, Masqueraden, auch allerley arth Newer Frantzösischer Täntze for five instruments (Berlin: Martin Guth), a collection of dance music Antonio Cifra Second book of masses (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi) Second book la Psalmorum, sacrorumque concentuum for eight voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi) Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi) Christoph Demantius Psalm 127 for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Georg von Walwitz and Catharina-Sophia von Löwen on June 26 la Encomium Amoris, de Ehrenpreyß der Liebe for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of David Fritsche and Sabina Lincken on September 18 de Ehrenpreyß eines tugendsamen Weibes (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Caspar Engels and Maria Schneider de Hochzeit Gesang for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Joachim Ludwig von Penzelin and Maria Schmieden Giacomo Finetti – la Concerti ecclesiastici for two, three, and four voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse) Melchior Franck de Neues Teutsches Musicalisches Fröliches Convivium for four, five, and six voices or instruments (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of secular partsongs de Herzlich lieb hab' ich dich o Herr for eight voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a funeral motet Sigismondo d'India it Le musiche e balli for four voices and basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincento), a collection of balletti Fourth book of it le musiche for one and two voices with accompaniment (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti) Duarte Lobo – Book of Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin) Isaac Posch – de Musikalische Tafelfreudt for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Abraham Wagenmann for Isaac Posch), a collection of dance music Thomas Ravenscroft – The Whole Booke of Psalmes Opera Pietro Pace – L'IlarcosmoOperaglass: List of composers Births March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (died 1696) probable Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (died 1668) Matthew Locke, English composer and theorist (died 1677) Deaths February 15 – Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist (born 1571) March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (born 1562) June 21 – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, writer and composer (born 1564) (executed) August 23 – Antonio Il Verso, composer (born 1565) October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher (born 1562) November 30 – Francesco Rasi, Italian singer and composer (born 1574) date unknown Ippolito Fiorini, lutenist and composer (born 1549) Edmund Hooper, organist (born c.1553) Francesco Soriano, composer (born c.1548) References Category:1620s in music Category:1621 in the arts Music Category:17th century in music Category:Music by year