1624 in music

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The year 1624 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Antonio Bertali is employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II.

Publications

  • Juan Arañés – Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos
  • Thomas Elsbeth – Ein Hochzeitlicher Gesang (Von Gott mir ist erkohren) for five voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a wedding song
  • Melchior Franck
    • Neues Christliches Grabgesang for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a funeral motet
    • Neues Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 37. Psalm v. 4.5 for five voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei), a wedding motet for Johann Forckel, his printer
    • Neues Christliches Epithalamium, aus der Historia Isaacs und Rebeccae for twelve voices in two choirs (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il primo libro di capricci
  • Sigismondo d'India
    • Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
    • Eighth book of madrigals for five voices and basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Poematia et carmina (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi), a collection of songs by Pope Urban VIII
  • Francis Pilkington – The second set of madrigals, and pastorals, of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)
  • Samuel Scheidt – Tabulatura nova, three books of organ music

Classical music

  • Claudio Monteverdi – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
  • Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Ricercar Tabulatura

Opera

    Births

    • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)
    • date unknown
      • Francesco Provenzale, composer (died 1704)
      • François Roberday, organist and composer (died 1680)

    Deaths

    • February 4 – Vicente Espinel, writer and guitarist (born 1550)
    • October – Marcantonio Negri, composer, singer and musical director
    • November 14 – Costanzo Antegnati, Italian organ builder, organist and composer
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