1611 in music

The year 1611 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 – Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Robert Johnson.
• February 3 – Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by Ferrabosco.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari
• Psalms and a Magnificat for five voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• , Op. 14 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of sacred songs
• for eight voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
• Second book of motets (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
• (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
• , madrigals for one and two voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli)
• Robert Ballard – a collection of arrangements for the lute.
• Valerio Bona
• (Delightful introits of the mass for two choirs, short, easy, & airy), Op. 18 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Masses and Vespers for four choirs, Op. 19 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Bernardino Borlasca – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• William Byrd – Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets for three, four, five, and six parts (London: Thomas East for William Barley)
• Antonio Cifra – 7 Psalms for four voices, Op. 10 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Christoph Demantius – for six voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), funeral music to commemorate the death of Christian II, Elector of Saxony on June 23
• Christian Erbach – , third book, for four and five voices (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius)
• Giacomo Finetti
• for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), Vespers psalms for Corpus Christi
• Second book of motets for two voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli)
• Melchior Franck
• (New Trios) (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
• for five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), birthday motets
• for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of motets
• for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of quodlibets
• for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), two wedding songs with psalm texts
• for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday song with text from Isaiah 43
• Bartholomäus Gesius
• for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
• for eight voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet
• Carlo Gesualdo
• Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
• Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
• , for six voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
• Sigismondo d'India – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – (Rome)
• Claudio Merulo – Third book of (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Jonas Germundi Palma — Een christeligh jula songh... (Stockholm: Christoph Reusner)
• Angelo Paoletti – (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Claudio Pari – Il pastor fido, second book of madrigals for five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
• Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by John Bull, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons
• Serafino Patta — Sacra cantica... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Popular music

• Thomas Ravenscroft – Melismata

Opera

• Giulio Cesare Monteverdi –

Births

• June 22 – Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer (died 1679)
• December – Leonora Baroni, singer, instrumentalist and composer (died 1670)
• date unknown – Thomas Brewer, composer who introduced the "glee"

Deaths

• July – Simon Lohet, organist and composer (born c. 1550)
• August 20 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, composer (born c. 1548)
• date unknown
• Livia d'Arco, singer (born c. 1565)
• Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, violinist and composer (born 1556)
• Johannes Eccard, composer and conductor (born 1553)
• Gioseffo Guami, organist, singer and composer (born c. 1540)

References