1632 in music

The year 1632 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• December 29 – Just over halfway through a three-year contract as maestro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, Tarquinio Merula is dismissed for "indecency manifested towards several of his pupils."
• Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
• William Child becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Publications

• Melchior Franck
• (Hymn of Praise) for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a celebratory motet
• (Christian thanksgiving for our newborn baby Jesus) for seven and eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), three Christmas motets
• Claudio Monteverdi – Second book of (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of arias and madrigals
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of Messe brevi concertate a otto voci, Op. 10
• Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres

Opera

• Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.

Births

• February 18 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer (died 1692)
• April 2 (baptised) – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (died 1695)
• November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer (died 1687)

Deaths

• December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck, Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister (born c.1570)

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