1614 in music

The year 1614 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

• Hymn-writer Melchior Teschner becomes pastor at Oberpritschen.^[1]

Publications

• Cesare Bendinelli – Tutta L'Arte della Trombetta, a collection of lessons for the trumpet.
• Giulio Caccini – Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle, con due arie particolari per tenore, che ricerchi le corde del basso (Florence: Z. Pignoni)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con uno dialogo a sette, con il suo basso continuo per poterli concertare nel clavacembalo, et altri stromenti. Di Claudio Monteverde Maestro di Cappella della Sereniss. Sig. di Venetia in S. Marco (sixth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice.
• Michael Praetorius – Syntagma Musicum, part 1.
• Thomas Ravenscroft – A Briefe Discourse of the True (but Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees...

Births

• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste de Boësset, composer (died 1685)
  • Franz Tunder, German organist and composer (died 1667)

Deaths

• September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (born c. 1550)
• September 26 or 27 – Felice Anerio, composer (born 1560)

References