1629 in music

The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.
• The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.

Classical music

• Antonio Cifra
• Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Scipione Dentice – for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
• Ignazio Donati – , , the second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
• for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
• (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
• for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
• for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
• for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
• for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
• Biagio Marini – , Op. 8
• Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Asprilio Pacelli - (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
• Heinrich Schütz – , part 1, published in Venice

Opera

• Giovanni Rovetta –

Births

• January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)
• April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)
• Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)

Deaths

• January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)
• April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)
• May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
• October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584)
• date unknown
• Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)
• Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)

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