1607 in music
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The year 1607 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 6 - Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.
- February 24 - Première of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.
- March 1 - Francesco Gonzaga writes that the Duke of Mantua is pleased with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and that the work had "been to the great satisfaction of all who heard it".[1] Its second performance takes place on this date.
- Fourteen-year-old Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron Guido Bentivoglio.
- Francesca Caccini marries Giovanni Battista Signorini.
Publications
- William Byrd - Gradualia, Book 2
- Hans Leo Hassler - Psalmen und christliche Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
- Tobias Hume - Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke, published by John Windet
- Johannes Jeep - Studentengartlein, vol. 1
- Claudio Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali, Book 1
Classical music
- Adriano Banchieri - Ecclesiastiche sinfonie
- Salamone Rossi - a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde
Opera
Births
- March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymn-writer (died 1676)
- November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, librettist (died 1658)
- November 6 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (died 1655)
Deaths
- March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer and teacher (born 1543/4)
- June 7 - Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer (born c. 1538)
- September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Ferrarese composer (born c.1545)
- September - Claudia Cattaneo, court singer and wife of Claudio Monteverdi[2]
References
- ↑ Fenlon, Ian (1986). "Correspondence relating to the early Mantuan performances" in Whenham, John (ed.): Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24148-0. pp. 167–72
- ↑ Whenham, John, and Richard Wistreich, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 66.
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