1621 in music

The year 1621 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 6 – Andrea Salvadori's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.^[1]
• August 3 – 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.
• The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples.

Publications

• Thomas Ravenscroft – The Whole Booke of Psalmes

Opera

• Pietro Pace – L'Ilarcosmo^[2]

Births

• March 28 – 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)

Deaths

• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist (born 1571)
• March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (born 1562)
• June 21 – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, writer and composer (born 1564) (executed)
• August 23 – Antonio Il Verso, composer (born 1565)
• October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher (born 1562)
• November 30 – Francesco Rasi, Italian singer and composer (born 1574)
• date unknown
  • Ippolito Fiorini, lutenist and composer (born 1549)
  • Edmund Hooper, organist (born c.1553)
  • Francesco Soriano, composer (born c.1548)

References