1637 in music
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The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
- Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
- Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
- Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
- Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
- The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Classical music
- Benedetto Ferrari â Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
- Girolamo Frescobaldi â Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
- Tarquinio Merula â Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera
Opera
- Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli â Andromeda (the first publicly shown opera, premièred at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, during carnival)
- Virgilio Mazzocchi â Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12 at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome)
Births
- February 11 â Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
- December 7 â Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
- date unknown â Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
- probable â Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)
Deaths
- May 29 â JiÅà TÅanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
- July 6 â Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
- September 14 â Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
- dates unknown â Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)