1607 in music
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The year 1607 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 6 â Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.
- February 24 â Première of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.
- March 1 â Francesco Gonzaga writes that the Duke of Mantua is pleased with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and that the work had "been to the great satisfaction of all who heard it".[1] Its second performance takes place on this date.
- Fourteen-year-old Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron Guido Bentivoglio.
- Francesca Caccini marries Giovanni Battista Signorini.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari
- First book of madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Second book of madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Gregor Aichinger
- Cantiones ecclesiasticae (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer)
- Virginalia: laudes aeternae Virginis Mariae... (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer)
- Adriano Banchieri
- Ecclesiastiche sinfonie for four voices, Op. 16 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Virtuoso ridotto tra signori, e dame, entr'il quale si concerta recitabilmente in suoni et canti una nuova comedia detta prudenza giovenile, fifth book for three voices, Op. 14 (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo), a madrigal comedy
- Bartolomeo Barbarino â Second book of Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Lodovico Bellanda â Musiche ... per cantare sopra il chitarrone et clavicimbalo (Music for singing with the theorbo and harpsichord) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of songs for solo voice
- Giulio Belli
- Compieta, falsi bordoni, mottetti, et litanie della Madonna for six voices and continuo (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
- Compieta, falsi bordoni, antifone, et litanie della Madonna for four voices and continuo (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
- Severo Bonini â Madrigali, e canzonette spirituali del M. R. P. D. Crisostomo Talenti, vallombrosano, et del sig. Giovambatista Marino for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instrument (Florence: Cristofano Marescotti)
- William Byrd â Gradualia, Book 2, for four, five, and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Barley)
- Diomedes Cato
- PieÅÅ o ÅwiÄtym StanisÅawie (Song of Saint Stanislaus) (Kraków: B. Skalski)
- Rytmy ÅaciÅskie uczynione od krolewica polskiego Kazimierza (Kraków: B. Skalski), a collection of sacred music in lute tablature
- Giovanni Luca Conforti â Passagi sopra tutti li salmi che ordinariamente canta Santa Chiesa (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli)
- Camillo Cortellini â Magnificat for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giovanni Croce â Fourth book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Scipione Dentice â Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
- Johannes Eccard
- Epithalamion nuptiis Iohannis Stobaei et Elisabethae Hausmann for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a song for the wedding of Johann Stobaeus
- Psalmus CXXVII (Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Harmonia musica (Docti fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a graduation song
- Thomas Ford â Musicke of sundrie kindes, set forth in two bookes (London: John Browne)
- Melchior Franck â Melodiarum sacrarum for five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
- Marco da Gagliano â Officium defunctorum for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & brothers)
- Bartholomäus Gesius
- Magnificat per quintum & sextum tonum for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
- Der XC. Psalm (Herr Gott du bist unser Zuflucht) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a funeral motet
- Hans Leo Hassler â Psalmen und christliche Gesäng for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann)
- Tobias Hume â Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection for two bass viols
- Johannes Jeep â Studentengartlein, vol. 1
- Tiburtio Massaino
- Musica per cantare con l'organo for one, two, and three voices, Op. 32 (Venice: Alessandro Raverii), a collection of sacred songs
- First book of motets for seven voices with organ bass, Op. 33 (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
- Claudio Merulo â Second book of ricercari da cantare for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
- Claudio Monteverdi â Scherzi Musicali, Book 1, for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of madrigals
- Pomponio Nenna
- Responsories for Christmas and Holy Week for four voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
- Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
- Asprilio Pacelli â Motets and psalms for eight voices (Frankfurt)
- Salustio Palmiero â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Enrico Antonio Radesca â Armoniosa corona, a collection of motets, psalms, and falsobordoni for two voices and continuo (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo), also contains one piece by Giovanni Battista Stefanini
- Salamone Rossi â a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde[vague]
Classical music
Opera
- Feb 24 â Claudio Monteverdi â L'Orfeo, favola in musica, in the Ducal Palace, Mantua
Births
- March 12 â Paul Gerhardt, German hymn-writer (died 1676)
- November 1 â Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, librettist (died 1658)
- November 6 â Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (died 1655)
Deaths
- March 11 â Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer and teacher (born 1543/4)
- June 7 â Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer (born c. 1538)
- September 10 â Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Ferrarese composer (born c.1545)
- September â Claudia Cattaneo, court singer and wife of Claudio Monteverdi[2]