1631 in music
The year 1631 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- January 9 – The masque Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; the work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
- In Venice, the plague outbreak of 1629–1631, after reducing the population by one third, comes to an end. Claudio Monteverdi writes a mass for a service of thanksgiving, held at St Mark's Basilica.
- Marco Marazzoli is one of several musicians who accompany Cardinal Antonio Barberini on a visit to Urbino.
- Earliest known bentside spinet, made by Hieronymus de Zentis.[1]
Publications
- Christoph Demantius – Deutsche Passion, nach dem Evangelisten S. Iohanne for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann)
- Melchior Franck
- Dulces mundani exilii deliciae for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of sacred songs
- Psalmodia sacra for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets
- Hertzlicher Seufftzer der Christlichen Kirchen in Deutschland for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a motet of national consolation, setting Psalm 122
- Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
- Missa Urbanae, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)[2]
- Litaniae Deiparae Virginis, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
- Filipe de Magalhães – Book of Masses (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck)[3]
- Thomas Morley – an edition of his canzonets.
- Cornelis Padbrué – Kusjes (collection of madrigals)
- Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Sacre canzoni musicali..., book three (Messina: Pietro Brea)
Classical music
- Claudio Monteverdi – Mass of Thanksgiving[4]
Opera
- Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.[5]
Births
- October – Pierre Beauchamp, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1705)
- October 3 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (died 1712)
Deaths
- January 3 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (born 1575)
- March 24 – Philipp Dulichius, composer (born 1562)
- August 6 – Juan Blas de Castro, singer and composer (born 1561)
- date unknown – Christoph Straus, German choral composer (born 1575)
References
- Frank Hubbard (1967)
- Karlheinz Schlager (1975). Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (in German). Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-7618-0512-1.
- Bonnie J. Blackburn (2009). Uno Gentile Et Subtile Ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn. Brepols. p. 393-4. ISBN 978-2-503-53163-2.
- John Stanley (May 1997). Classical Music: An Introduction to Classical Music Through the Great Composers & Their Masterworks. Reader's Digest Association. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-89577-947-2.
- Margaret Murata, "Land, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).
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