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
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 ...
**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
Song of Songs 4 (abbreviated as Song 4) is the fourth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012. This b ...
** 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
Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era.
Life
Carlo Milanuzzi was born in Santa Natoglia, or Esanatoglia in the Marche region, to Milanuzzo and donna Felice, probably around 1590, but not after ...
– First book of Masses for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
*
Asprilio Pacelli
Asprilio Pacelli (or Pecelli) (1570 – 4 May 1623) was an Italian Baroque composer. He was born in Vasciano near Narni in Stroncone, Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy; and died in Warsaw.
Life
He was a boy chorister at Cappella Giulia under G ...
- (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
*
Heinrich Schütz – , part 1, published in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
Opera
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Giovanni Rovetta –
Births
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January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
–
Lelio Colista
Lelio Colista (13 January 1629, Rome – 13 October 1680, Rome) was an Italian Baroque composer, lutenist, and guitarist.Michael Tilmouth, entry on Lelio Colista in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980
Funded by his father, who h ...
, 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
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January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
–
Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)
*
April 19 –
Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born ''c''.1582)
*
May 5 –
Joachim Burmeister
Joachim Burmeister (1564 in Lüneburg – 5 May 1629 in Rostock) was a north German composer and music theorist.
He was the oldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St ...
, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
*
October 2 –
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 ...
, Baroque composer (born 1584)
*''date unknown''
**
Paolo Agostino
Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583 – 1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the ded ...
, composer and organist (born c.1583)
**
Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)
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