1631 in music

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.^[1]

Publications

• Christoph Demantius – Deutsche Passion, nach dem Evangelisten S. Iohanne for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann)
• Melchior Franck
  • Dulces mundani exilii deliciae for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of sacred songs
  • Psalmodia sacra for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets
  • Hertzlicher Seufftzer der Christlichen Kirchen in Deutschland for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a motet of national consolation, setting Psalm 122
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • Missa Urbanae, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)^[2]
  • Litaniae Deiparae Virginis, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• Filipe de Magalhães – Book of Masses (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck)^[3]
• Thomas Morley – an edition of his canzonets.
• Cornelis Padbrué – Kusjes (collection of madrigals)
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Sacre canzoni musicali..., book three (Messina: Pietro Brea)

Classical music

• Claudio Monteverdi – Mass of Thanksgiving^[4]

Opera

• Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.^[5]

Births

• October – Pierre Beauchamp, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1705)^[6]
• 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)