1616 in music
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Events
- Johann Hermann Schein becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
- Manuel Correia joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
- Librettist Andrea Salvadori becomes court poet to the Medici family.[1]
Musical groups formed
- A collegium musicum is founded in Prague.[2]
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger â Triplex liturgiarum fasciculus e tribus ac diversis optimorum musicorum modulis concinnatus... (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
- Bartolomeo Barbarino â Canzonettas for one and two voices, with some for solo voice, either soprano or tenor, with theorbo or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Valerio Bona â Lamentations for Holy Week with the Benedictus and Miserere for each day, for two choirs with continuo, Op. 22 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Bernardino Borlasca â Scala Iacob (Jacob's Ladder) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 6 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of sacred songs for all solemnities of the year
- Antonio Brunelli â Third book of Scherzi, arie, canzonette, e madrigali for one, two, and three voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Sethus Calvisius â Schwanengesang (Swan song) for eight voices (Leipzig: Lorenz Kober), a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, published posthumously
- Antonio Cifra â First book of Scherzi sacri for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 22 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
- Ignazio Donati â Motetti a cinque voci in concerto (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Melchior Franck
- Geistlichen Musicalischen Lustgartens Erster Theil for four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of motets
- Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem ersten Capitel deà Hohenlieds Salomonis for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
- Musicalische Glückwünschung for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
- Zwey Newe Hochzeit Gesäng for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
- Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem 26. Capitel Sirachs for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
- Tricinium Novum (Wie ein Kauffmann das Himmelreich) (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
- Lilia Musicalia for four voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of secular songs and dances
- Joachim van den Hove â Praeludia testudinis for two voices or violins (Leiden: Godefridus Basson)
- Sigismondo d'India
- Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Scipione Lacorcia â Second book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
- Luca Marenzio â Motets for five, six, and seven voices with organ bass (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
- Simone Molinaro â Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum, Marcum, Lucam, et Ioannem (Loano: Francesco Castello)
- Pietro Pace â Scherzi, arie, et madrigali a 1â4 v..., Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia â First book of motets (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
- Claudio Pari â Third book of madrigals for five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
- Peter Philips
- Deliciae sacrae (Sacred Delights) for two and three voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
- Les Rossignols spirituels (The Spiritual Nightengales), a collection of sacred songs for two voices with organ bass (Valenciennes: Jean Vervliet)
- Hieronymus Praetorius â Liber Missarum (Hamburg: Henrico Carstens) [3]
- Nicolas Vallet â Le Secret des Muses, book 2[4]
Classical music
- Girolamo Frescobaldi â Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
- Claudio Monteverdi â Tirsi e Clori (ballet)
Opera
- Domenico Belli's' Orfeo dolente
- Claudio Monteverdi â Le nozze di Tetide (lost)
Births
- February 28 â Kaspar Förster, opera composer (d. 1673)
- May 18 â Johann Jakob Froberger, composer and organist (died 1667)
- September â Jacques de Saint-Luc, lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
- date unknown â Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
- probable â Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (died 1678)
Deaths
- June 6 â Cornelis Schuyt, organist and composer (born 1557)
- unknown date â Johann Steffens, German organist and composer (born c.1560)[5]
- probable
- Krzysztof Klabon, composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)
- Giuliano Paratico, singer and chitarrone player (born c.1550)