The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.
Events Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel. The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.
Classical music Antonio Cifra Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti) Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano) Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano) Scipione Dentice – for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio) Ignazio Donati – , , the second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti) Melchior Franck for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53 (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4 for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel) Biagio Marini – , Op. 8 Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti) Asprilio Pacelli - (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously Heinrich Schütz – , part 1, published in Venice
Opera Giovanni Rovetta –
Births January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680) April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691) Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)
Deaths January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560) April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582) May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564) October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584) date unknown Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583) Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)
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