The year 1612 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*July –

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

is dismissed from his post at the court of Mantua by the new duke Francesco IV Gonzaga. * October 28 – John Dowland is appointed to a special post at the court of King James I of England. *December – The death of Francesco Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, fails to bring a recall to court for

Publications

* Adriano Banchieri – , Op. 26 (Venice:

Ricciardo Amadino Ricciardo Amadino (''fl.'' 1572–1621) was a Venetian printer, specialising in music. Amadino briefly attempted to publish music on his own in 1579, but was unsuccessful. He joined with Giacomo Vincenti, with whom he published over 80 books betw ...

), a collection for four instruments *

Antonio Brunelli Antonio Brunelli (20 December 1577 in Pisa – 19 November 1630 in Pisa) was an Italian composer and theorist of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San Miniato in T ...

– (Meadow of sacred musical flowers) for one voice and eight voices with continuo, Op. 7 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) * Sethus Calvisius – book two (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), an expanded edition of book one from 1599 *

Antonio Cifra Antonio Cifra (1584? – 2 October 1629 in Loreto) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the significant transitional figures between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and pro ...

– Fifth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 11 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) *

William Corkine William Corkine ( fl. 1610 - 1617) was an English composer, lutenist, gambist and lyra viol player of the Renaissance. In private service in the second decade of the 17th century before traveling to Poland in 1617. He published a first book of ...

– ''The second book of ayres, some, to sing and play to the base-violl alone: others, to be sung to the lute and base violl'' (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley), also includes pieces for the lyra viol * Giovanni Croce – for three, five, and six voices with a four-part ripieno (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) * Ignazio Donati – for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) * John Dowland – ''A Pilgrimes solace'' for three, four, and five voices (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley) *

Giacomo Finetti Giacomo Finetti (died 1630) was an Italian Anconitan priest and composer.Eleanor Selfridge-Field ''Venetian Instrumental Music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi'' – 1994, page 29 "One of the most respected maestri seems to have been the Anconitan priest ...

– for four voices with organ bass (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Melchior Franck ** for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding song ** (Musical Sigh) for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of motets * Bartholomäus Gesius – for five voices (Brieg), a graduation song * Orlando Gibbons – ''The First Set Of Madrigals and Motetts of 5. Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces'' (London: Thomas Snodham for William Barley) *

Konrad Hagius Konrad Hagius (also Conrad von Hagen and Cunradus Hagius Rinteleus; Rinteln, c. 1550–1616) was a German composer. He studied in Königsberg, then by 1586 was in Düsseldorf in the service of John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Then at the ...

– First book of for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter) * Hans Leo Hassler – ''Sacri concentus'' Book 2, published in Augsburg. *

Joachim van den Hove Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Low Countries, Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and i ...

– (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen), a collection of lute music * Sigismondo d'India – Second book of for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger **First book of for one voice (Rome) **First book of for one voice with theorbo (Rome) * Claude Le Jeune – Second (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of chansons, published posthumously *

Simone Molinaro Simone Molinaro (c. 1570 – May 1636)''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Personenteil, Band 12, Kassel 2004, p. 308. was a composer of the late Renaissance in Italy. He was especially renowned for his lute music. Life and career Molina ...

– Concerti for one and two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Lomazzo) *

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (ca. 1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers. He was the younger brother of the some ...

**Third book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti for Christophoro Margarina) **Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti) *Pietro Pace – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti) * Benedetto Pallavicino – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously *Tomaso Pecci - Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously * Peter Philips – ''Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus'' (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse) * Michael Praetorius – '' Terpsichore'', a set of Renaissance dances. *''probable'' **''

Parthenia Parthenia may refer to: *Parthenia (music), the first printed collection of music for keyboard in England * Parthenia (Mauretania), a town and bishopric in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis * Parthenia (Paphlagonia), a town of ancient Pap ...

'', a collection of keyboard music by William Byrd, John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons

Opera

*''none recorded''

Births

*''date unknown'' **

Wolfgang Ebner Wolfgang Ebner (16121665) was a German baroque composer. He was a Viennese court organist in the latter years of the reign of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and then of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Ebner was born in Augsburg. He may have pr ...

, organist and court composer (died 1665) **

John Hingston John Hingston (1612–1683) was an English composer, organist and viol player who served Charles I of England, the Protector Oliver Cromwell and Charles II of England. Biography Born in 1612, little is known about Hingston's early life. A pupi ...

, organist, viol player and composer (died 1683) ** Vincenzo Tozzi, opera composer (died 1679)opera.stanford.edu
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Deaths

* June 8 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (born 1564) * August 12 – Giovanni Gabrieli, composer and organist (born c.1555) *September – Giovanni de' Bardi, writer and composer (born 1534) * September 24 –

Johannes Lippius Johannes Lippius (24 June 1585 – 24 September 1612) was an Alsatian theologian and music theorist. He coined the term "triad (music), harmonic triad" in his ''Synopsis musicae novae'' (''Synopsis of New Music''; 1612). Life Lippius was born ...

, theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (born 1585) *''date unknown'' **

Ercole Bottrigari Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612) was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna. He dis ...

, writer and composer (born 1531) **

Tomasz Szadek Tomasz Szadek (1550 – 1612) was a Polish composer, singer, and cleric of the late Renaissance. He was a representative of the late style of the Franco-Flemish school in Poland.Zygmunt M. Szweykowski. "Tomasz Szadek." In Grove Music Online. Oxfo ...

, Polish composer and singer (born 1550)

References

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