1629 in music
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The year 1629 in music
involved some significant events.
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
involved some significant events.
Events
- Gregorio AllegriGregorio AllegriGregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
is appointed to compose for the Sistine ChapelSistine ChapelSistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio...
. - The wooden opera house of Teatro San CassianoTeatro San CassianoThe Teatro San Cassiano or Teatro di San Cassiano in Venice was the first public opera house when it opened in 1637. The theatre takes its name from the neighbourhood where it was located, the parish of San Cassiano near the Rialto. It was a stone building owned by the Venetian Tron family...
in Venice burns down.
Classical music
- Biagio MariniBiagio MariniBiagio Marini was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer of the first half of the seventeenth century.Marini was born in Brescia. His works were printed and influential throughout the European musical world...
– Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8 - Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
– Symphoniae Sacrae, part 1, published in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
Births
- January 13 – Lelio ColistaLelio ColistaLelio Colista was an Italian Baroque composer and lutenist.Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican library, Colista early received an excellent musical education, probably at the Seminario Romano. He masterly managed several instruments, especially the lute and theorbo...
, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680) - April 1 – Jean-Henri d'AnglebertJean-Henri d'AnglebertJean-Henri d'Anglebert was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day.-Life:...
, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691) - September – Lady Mary DeringLady Mary DeringLady Mary Dering was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a turkey merchant in London Lady Mary Dering (née Harvey) (bap. 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a...
, composer (died 1704)
Deaths
- January 27 – Hieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus Praetorius was a north German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras. He was not related to the much more famous Michael Praetorius, though the Praetorius family had many distinguished musicians throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.-Life:He was born...
, composer and organist (born 1560) - April 19 – Sigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'India was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous composer.-Life:D'India was probably born in Palermo, Sicily in 1582, though...
, Italian composer (born c.1582) - September 5 – Domenico AllegriDomenico AllegriDomenico Allegri was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Roma with his family, and a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri...
, composer and singer (born c.1585) - October 2 – Antonio CifraAntonio CifraAntonio Cifra 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 produced music in both idioms.-Life and works:Son of Costanzo and Claudia, Antonio Cifra was born...
, Baroque composer (born 1560) - date unknown
- Paolo AgostinoPaolo AgostinoPaolo Agostino 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 dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses...
, composer and organist (born c.1583) - Gaspar FernandesGaspar FernandesGaspar Fernandes was a Portuguese composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain .-Life:Most scholars agree that the Gaspar Fernandes listed as a singer in the cathedral of Évora,...
, organist and composer (born 1566)
- Paolo Agostino