1629 in music
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The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.[1]
- The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.[2]
Classical music
- Antonio Cifra
- Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
- Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
- Scipione Dentice â Madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
- Ignazio Donati â Madre de quatordeci figli, nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices in concerto (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Melchior Franck
- Prophetia Evangelica for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
- Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
- Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
- Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auà dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
- Aller Christgläubigen bester Trost Bey innstehenden letzten betrübten und gefährlichen Zeiten auà dem 3. Capitel der Klaglieder Jeremiae for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
- Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
- Biagio Marini â Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8[3]
- Carlo Milanuzzi â First book of Masses a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Asprilio Pacelli - Missae... (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
- Heinrich Schütz â Symphoniae sacrae, part 1, published in Venice[4]
Opera
- Giovanni Rovetta â Le lagrime di Erminia[5]
Births
- January 13 â Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)[6]
- April 1 â Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)[7]
- Baptized September 3 â Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)[8]
Deaths
- January 27 â Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)[9]
- April 19 â Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)[10]
- May 5 â Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
- October 2 â Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584)[11]
- date unknown
- Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)[12]
- Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)[13]