1637 in music

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The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice
• Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
• Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
• Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
• The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Classical music

• Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
• Tarquinio Merula – Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

Opera

• Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda, the first publicly shown opera, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice, during carnival
• Virgilio Mazzocchi & Marco Marazzoli – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12)

Births

• February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
• December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
• date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
• probable – Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

Deaths

• May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
• July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
• September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
• dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)