1617 in music

The year 1617 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 6 – The Vision of Delight, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
• January 16 – Thomas Weelkes, organist at Chichester Cathedral, is dismissed for being drunk and disorderly.
• February 22 – Lovers Made Men, another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)
• August 30 – Alessandro Grandi is appointed singer at San Marco, Venice, at a salary of 80 ducats per annum, under choirmaster Claudio Monteverdi.
• December 29 – John Bull is appointed cathedral organist in Antwerp, with a salary of 80 florins a year plus a special supplement of 20 florins.
• Lutenist and composer Jacques Gaultier flees to England from France after being involved in a murder.

Publications

• Agostino Agresta – First book of madrigals for six voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
• Gregor Aichinger
• (Ingolstadt, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo.
• (Dillingen, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo, dedicated to Maximilian Fugger.
• Giovanni Andreini, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, Alessandro Ghivizzani – (Venice, Bartolomeo Magni) "Sacra Rappresentazione" (i.e. an oratorio).
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
• Fourth book of (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• , madrigals for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of motets, madrigals, canzonettas, dialogues, and arias
• Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigals for three voices and theorbo or harpsichord (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes some madrigals for solo voice
• Girolamo Belli – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 22 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Jean Baptiste Besard – (Augsburg, D. Franck), collection of lute music.
• Bernardino Borlasca – First book of for two, three, and four voices, Op. 7 (Munich: Anna Berg)
• William Brade – for five instruments (Hamburg: Michael Hering), a collection of dance music
• Antonio Brunelli – for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Thomas Campion – The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, Thomas Snodham), "so as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion".
• Antonio Cifra
• Fifth book of for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 23 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Camillo Cortellini – Masses for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Richard Dering – for five voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
• Melchior Franck
• for twelve voices (Coburg: Justus Coburg), a festival motet
• for twelve voices in three choirs (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
• for eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
• (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
• Marco da Gagliano – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Pierre Guédron – Third book of for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
• Andreas Hakenberger – for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices with organ bass (Frankfurt: Gottfried Tampach)
• Biagio Marini – Affetti musicali (Musical Affections), Op. 1 (Venice)
• Pietro Pace
• , Op. 14 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• , Op. 15 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Vincenzo Pace - , 3 books, Op. 1–3 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of madrigals to five voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
• Francesco Pasquali – , Op. 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – Fifth book of canzonettas, madrigals and arias for one and two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Johann Hermann Schein – Banchetto musicale, newer ... Padouanen, Gagliarden, Courenten und Allemanden à 5, auff allerley Instrumenten (Leipzig).

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi – http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/G.html

Births

• April 3 – Antimo Liberati, Italian music theorist, composer, and contralto singer (d. 1692)

Deaths

• February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian, poet, and composer (born 1549)
• April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)
• August 8 – Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (born 1542)
• August 16 – Giovanni Bassano, cornet player and composer (born c. 1560)
• date unknown
• Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpet player (born c. 1542)
• Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)

References