The year 1652 in music involved some significant events.
Events Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar. Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687) becomes court musician at Innsbruck
Publications Henry Du Mont – Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music
Classical music Denis Gaultier – Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute pieces
Opera Antonio Bertali – Niobe Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea
Births April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, composer of hymns (died 1712) May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer and doctor (died 1732) date unknown – Diego Xaraba, composer (died 1715)
Deaths February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582) April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, traveller, composer and writer on music (born 1586) July 24 – Johann Weichmann, composer (born 1620) November – Charles Fleury, lutenist (born c.1605) date unknown – Filipe de Magalhães, choirmaster and composer (born c.1571)
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