1648 in music

The year 1648 in music involved some significant events.

Events End of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century. July 1 – Ambrosius Reiner is appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Innsbruck, succeeding his father-in-law Johann StadlmayrHellmut Federhofer, "Reiner, Ambrosius", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich's musical-dramatic festival play . Alexis of Russia's 1648 law "About the correction of morals and the destruction of superstitions" (Об исправлении нравов и уничтожении суеверий) has banned all the secular music in Russia. It ordered to publicly burn all the folk instruments and those performers who disagree had to be physically punished and deported to Malorossia (modern Ukraine).

Publications Johann Rudolph Ahle – Manuel Cardoso – (Lisbon: João Rodrigues for Laurenco Craebeck) Francesco Corbetta – , published in Brussels Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – (Venice) Marco Dionigi – (Parma; enlarged, second edition 1667)Agostino Ziino, "Dionigi, Marco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – (Amsterdam: Cornelis de Leeuw) [with fourth part added by Leeuw]Randall H. Tollefsen and Rudolf A. Rasch, "Leeuw, Cornelis (Janszoon) de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes Teodoro Massucci – (Rome) Paulus Matthysz (ed.) – 20 Koninklijcke fantasien (Amsterdam: Paulus Matthysz)Henri Vanhulst, "Matthysz, Paulus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Johann Rist – (Hamburg), with songs by Heinrich Pape Heinrich Schütz – (Spiritual Choral Music) Births July 9 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719) August 9 (baptized) – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)

Deaths January 9 – David Gregor Corner, German theologian, hymnologist, poet, and composer (born 1585)Walther Lipphardt and Dorothea Schröder, "Corner, David Gregor", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). July 12 – Johann Stadlmayr, German composer and organist (born c.1580)Hilde H. Junkermann and Theo Schmitt, "Stadlmayr [Stadlmair, Stadelmaier, Stadelmayer, Stadelmeyer], Johann", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English courtier, amateur lutenist, and composer (born March 3, 1582)Diana Poulton and Robert Spencer, "Herbert, Edward, Lord of Cherbury and Castle Island", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580) unknown – Michael East, English composer (born c.1580)

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