1612 in music

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The year 1612 in music involved some significant events.

Gravestone for composer Giovanni Gabrieli, Venice, Italy.
Gravestone for composer Giovanni Gabrieli, Venice, Italy.

Events

Publications

  • Adriano Banchieri – Moderna armonia di canzoni alla francese, Op. 26 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection for four instruments
  • Antonio Brunelli – Prato di sacri fiori musicali (Meadow of sacred musical flowers) for one voice and eight voices with continuo, Op. 7 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Sethus Calvisius – Bicinia book two (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), an expanded edition of book one from 1599
  • Antonio Cifra – Fifth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 11 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • William Corkine – The second book of ayres, some, to sing and play to the base-violl alone: others, to be sung to the lute and base violl (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley), also includes pieces for the lyra viol
  • Giovanni Croce – Sacre cantilene for three, five, and six voices with a four-part ripieno (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Ignazio Donati – Sacri concentus for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • John Dowland – A Pilgrimes solace for three, four, and five voices (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley)
  • Giacomo Finetti – Concerti for four voices with organ bass (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Melchior Franck
    • Ein schöner Text Auß dem Ersten Capitel Syrachs for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding song
    • Suspira musica (Musical Sigh) for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of motets
  • Bartholomäus Gesius – Gratulatio musica in lauream doctoralem Jacobi Schickfusii for five voices (Brieg), a graduation song
  • Orlando Gibbons – The First Set Of Madrigals and Motetts of 5. Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces (London: Thomas Snodham for William Barley)
  • Konrad Hagius – First book of Etlicher Teutscher Geistlicher Psalmen und Gesängen for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter)
  • Hans Leo Hassler – Sacri concentus Book 2, published in Augsburg.
  • Joachim van den Hove – Delitiae musicae (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen), a collection of lute music
  • Sigismondo d'India – Second book of Villanelle alla napolitana for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
    • First book of motetti passagiatti for one voice (Rome)
    • First book of arie passagiatti for one voice with theorbo (Rome)
  • Claude Le Jeune – Second livre des meslanges (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of chansons, published posthumously
  • Simone Molinaro – Concerti for one and two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Lomazzo)
  • Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
    • Third book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti for Christophoro Margarina)
    • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
  • Pietro Pace – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
  • Tomaso Pecci - Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
  • Peter Philips – Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Michael Praetorius – Terpsichore, a set of Renaissance dances.
  • probable

Opera

  • none recorded

Births

  • date unknown
    • Wolfgang Ebner, organist and court composer (died 1665)
    • John Hingston, organist, viol player and composer (died 1683)
    • Vincenzo Tozzi, opera composer (died c. 1679)[2]

Deaths

References

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