1629 in music

The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.^[1]
• The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.^[2]

Classical music

• Antonio Cifra
  • Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
  • Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
  • Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Scipione Dentice – Madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
• Ignazio Donati – Madre de quatordeci figli, nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices in concerto (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
  • Prophetia Evangelica for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
  • Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
  • Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
  • Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auß dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
  • Aller Christgläubigen bester Trost Bey innstehenden letzten betrübten und gefährlichen Zeiten auß dem 3. Capitel der Klaglieder Jeremiae for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
  • Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
• Biagio Marini – Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8^[3]
• Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Asprilio Pacelli - Missae... (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
• Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae sacrae, part 1, published in Venice^[4]

Opera

• Giovanni Rovetta – Le lagrime di Erminia^[5]

Births

• January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)^[6]
• April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)^[7]
• Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)^[8]

Deaths

• January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)^[9]
• April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)^[10]
• May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
• October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584)^[11]
• date unknown
  • Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)^[12]
  • Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)^[13]