The year 1631 in music involved some significant events.
Events January 9 – The masque Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; the work features music by Nicholas Lanier. In Venice, the plague outbreak of 1629–1631, after reducing the population by one third, comes to an end. Claudio Monteverdi writes a mass for a service of thanksgiving, held at St Mark's Basilica. Marco Marazzoli is one of several musicians who accompany Cardinal Antonio Barberini on a visit to Urbino. Earliest known bentside spinet, made by Hieronymus de Zentis.Frank Hubbard (1967)
Publications Christoph Demantius – for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann) Melchior Franck for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of sacred songs for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a motet of national consolation, setting Psalm 122 Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger , vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti) , vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti) Filipe de Magalhães – Book of Masses (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck) Thomas Morley – an edition of his canzonets. Cornelis Padbrué – (collection of madrigals) Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — , book three (Messina: Pietro Brea)
Classical music Claudio Monteverdi – Mass of Thanksgiving
Opera Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.Margaret Murata, "Land, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).
Births October – Pierre Beauchamp, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1705) October 3 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (died 1712)
Deaths January 3 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (born 1575) March 24 – Philipp Dulichius, composer (born 1562) August 6 – Juan Blas de Castro, singer and composer (born 1561) date unknown – Christoph Straus, German choral composer (born 1575)
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