1615 in music
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Publications
- Girolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
– Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni - Giovanni GabrieliGiovanni GabrieliGiovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.-Biography:Gabrieli was born in Venice...
– Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, published posthumously - Hans Leo HasslerHans Leo HasslerHans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
– Venusgarten, a collection of instrumental music, published in NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Opera
- Francesca CacciniFrancesca CacciniFrancesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...
– Il ballo delle zigane (lost) - Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
– Second edition of L'Orfeo
Births
- September 16 – Heinrich BachHeinrich BachHeinrich Bach was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family.Heinrich Bach was born at Wechmar, Germany, and is the father of the so-called Arnstädt Line. After the early death of his father, his older brother Johannes Bach continued his music education and teaching him organ...
, German organist (died 1692) - date unknown
- Giovanni FaustiniGiovanni FaustiniGiovanni Faustini was an Italian librettist and opera impresario of the 17th century. He is best remembered for his collaborations with the composer Francesco Cavalli.Faustini was born in Venice...
, librettist and opera impresario (died 1651) - Christopher GibbonsChristopher GibbonsChristopher Gibbons was an English composer and organist. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons.As a child, Gibbons sang in the Chapel Royal under the direction of Nathaniel Giles...
, organist and composer (died 1676)
- Giovanni Faustini
- probable - Francesca CampanaFrancesca CampanaFrancesca Campana was a Roman singer, spinet player and composer. She was born in Rome, thought to be the daughter of Andrea Campana, wife of the composer Giovan Carlo Rossi and sister-in-law of Luigi Rossi...
, singer, spinet player and composer (died 1665)
Deaths
- June 15 – Innocentio AlbertiInnocentio AlbertiInnocentio Alberti was an Italian instrumentalist and composer. He came from a family of musicians from Treviso. His father was a trumpeter and his brother and uncle were also musicians. He was brought to Padua to be a music tutor in the Accademia degli Elevati under Francesco Portinaro in 1557...
, Italian cornet player and composer (born c. 1535) - August 7 – Melchior VulpiusMelchior VulpiusMelchior Vulpius was a German singer and composer of church music.Vulpius came from a poor craftsman's family. He studied at the local school in Wasungen with Johannes Steuerlein. From 1588, he attended the school in Speyer. After marrying in 1589, he obtained a position at the Gymnasium in...
, German composer, primarily of sacred music (born c.1570) - November 24 – Sethus CalvisiusSethus CalvisiusSethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance....
, music theorist, composer and astronomer (born 1556)