1625 in music
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The year 1625 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Jacques Gaultier becomes a musician at the court of King Charles I of England.[1]
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari â Eucharisticum melos..., Op. 20 (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
- Adriano Banchieri
- La sampogna musicale (The musical Syrinx) (Bologna: Girolamo Mascheroni)
- Il principiante fanciullo (The beginning child) for two voices, Op. 46 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of musical exercises for young singers
- Manuel Cardoso â First book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck)
- Melchior Franck
- Newes Musicalisches Opusculum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of intradas
- Gratulatio Musica for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet for the jurist Johann Bechstedt
- Geistliche Vermählung des Herrn Christi mit einer glaubigen Seel aus dem schönen Spruch Hoseæ 2 for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
- Carlo Milanuzzi â Second book of sacra cetra concertata con affetti ecclesiastici for two, three, four, and five voices with organ, Op. 13 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), also includes arias for bass solo
- Pietro Pace - The eleventh book of motets..., Op. 25 (Rome, Giovanni Battista Robletti), prepared posthumously by his son, Benedetto Pace
- Giovanni Picchi â Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti for two, three, four, six, and eight voices with basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Hieronymus Praetorius â Cantiones novae officiosae for five, six, seven, eight, ten, and fifteen voices, Op. 5 (Hamburg: Michael Hering)
Classical music
- Alessandro Grandi â O quam tu pulchra es, a concertato motet[2]
Opera
Births
- December 24 â Johann Rudolph Ahle, organist and composer (d. 1673)[4]
Deaths
- January 7 â Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (born c.1560)[5]
- June 5 â Orlando Gibbons, composer (born 1583)[6]
- July 5 â Cornelis Verdonck, composer (born 1563)[7]
- October 1 â Hendrik Speuy, organist and composer (born c.1575)
- November 3 â Adam Gumpelzhaimer, composer and music theorist (born 1559)[8]
- date unknown â Muthu Thandavar, Carnatic composer (born 1525)
- probable â Paul Peuerl, organist, organ builder and composer (born 1570)[9]