Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

• 14 February:   FRANCESCO CAVALLI = Italian composer = [died: 1676]
• April:   WILLIAM LAWES = English composer and musician = [died: 1645]


• probable:
• CHIARA MARGARITA COZZOLANI = Italian composer = [died: 1678]

Timeline of Musical Events

• ASPRILIO PACELLI is appointed maestro di capella of St Peter's Basilica

Publications

• February:   GIULIO CACCINI = Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
• AGOSTINO AGAZZARI = Sacrae cantiones, book 1 [Rome: Aloysio Zannetti]
• GREGOR AICHINGER = Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae [Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana], settings of selections from the Floridorum of Jacobus Pontanus [fr], for three voices
• FELICE ANERIO:
• Second book of Sacri hymni et cantica [Rome: Aloysio Zannetti]
• Second book of madrigals for six voices [Rome: Luigi Zannetti]
• GIAMMATEO ASOLA
• Psalmi ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices [Venice: Ricciardo Amadino], also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
• Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) [Venice: Ricciardo Amadino]
• Lamentations for six voices [Venice: Ricciardo Amadino]
• IPPOLITO BACCUSI = Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices [Venice: Ricciardo Amadino]
• GIOVANNI BASSANO = First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument [Venice: Giacomo Vincenti]
• LODOVICO BELLANDA = First book of madrigals for five voices [Venice: Ricciardo Amadino]
• AURELIO BONELLI = First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices [Venice: Angelo Gardano]
• CHRISTOPH DEMANTIUS = Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments [Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola], a collection of music for Vespers
• SCIPIONE DENTICE = Fourth book of madrigals for five voices [Naples: Antonio Pace]
• STEFANO FELIS = Ninth book of madrigals for five voices [Venice: Giacomo Vincenti]
• MELCHIOR FRANCK
• Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices [Nuremberg: Konrad Baur], a collection of secular partsongs
• Farrago for six voices [Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich], a collection of secular partsongs
• Contrapuncti composti for four voices [Nurember: Konrad Baur], a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
• MARCO DA GAGLIANO = First book of madrigals for five voices [Venice: Angelo Gardano]
• BARTHOLOMÄUS GESIUS = Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preiß der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices [Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann], a song in praise of Music
• PIERRE GUÉDRON = Airs de cours for four and five voices [Paris: Ballard]
• CLAUDE LE JEUNE = First book of psalms for three voices [Paris: widow of R. Ballard]
• ALONSO LOBO = First book of masses [Madrid: Joannes Flandre]
• DUARTE LOBO = Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices [Antwerp: Plantin], a collection of liturgical music
• TOMASO PECCI = Madrigals for five voices [Venice: Angelo Gardano], also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
• ANDREAS PEVERNAGE = Masses for five, six, and seven voices [Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse], published posthumously
• COSTANZO PORTA = Hymnodia sacra for four voices [Venice: Angelo Gardano], a collection of hymns for the whole year
• HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS = Magnificats for eight voices [Hamburg: Philip von Ohr]
• ORFEO VECCHI:
• Third book of masses for five voices [Milan: Agostino Tradate]
• La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna [Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi], a madrigal cycle
• LODOVICO GROSSI DA VIADANA = Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Classical Music

• LODOVICO GROSSI DA VIADANA
• Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

• GIULIO CACCINI
• Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)