1652 in music

none thumb | right 1652 music The year 1652 in music involved some significant events. Events Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar. Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687) becomes court musician at Innsbruck Publications Henry Du Mont – Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music Classical music Denis Gaultier – Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute piecesPalisca Claude V. Baroque Music 1968 3rd Prentice Hall History of Music 1991 Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs 0-13-058496-7 190 Opera Antonio Bertali – Niobe Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea Births April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, composer of hymns (died 1712) May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer and doctor (died 1732) date unknown – Diego Xaraba, composer (died 1715) Deaths February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582) April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, traveller, composer and writer on music (born 1586) July 24 – Johann Weichmann, composer (born 1620) November – Charles Fleury, lutenist (born c.1605) date unknown – Filipe de Magalhães, choirmaster and composer (born c.1571) References Category:17th century in music Category:Music by year