Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 March:   HEINRICH SCHWEMMER = German music teacher and composer = [died: 1696]


• probable:
• ALBERTUS BRYNE = English composer and organist = [died: 1668]
• MATTHEW LOCKE = English composer and theorist = [died: 1677]

Timeline of Events

• 6 January: ANDREA SALVADORI's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.
• 3 August: The masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed, written by BEN JONSON and designed by INIGO JONES, is performed for the first time; it is repeated twice more in August and September. The masque features the music of NICHOLAS LANIER


• Also in 1621:
• The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples.

Publications

• THOMAS RAVENSCROFT = The Whole Booke of Psalmes

Opera

• PIETRO PACE
• L'Ilarcosmo