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1612 in music

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The year 1612 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • July – Claudio Monteverdi is dismissed from his post at the court of Mantua by the new duke Francesco IV Gonzaga.Maldwyn A. Jones, [https://books.google.com/books?id=s6XH8mOtfwcC&dq=opera+performed+1612&pg=RA1-PA602 Historia de Estados Unidos, 1607–1992] (Catédra, 1996), {{Page needed|date=November 2017}}. {{ISBN|9788437614076}}.
  • October 28 – John Dowland is appointed to a special post at the court of King James I of England.
  • December – The death of Francesco Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, fails to bring a recall to court for Claudio Monteverdi.

Publications

  • Adriano Banchieri – {{lang|it|Moderna armonia di canzoni alla francese}}, Op. 26 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection for four instruments
  • Antonio Brunelli – {{lang|it|Prato di sacri fiori musicali}} (Meadow of sacred musical flowers) for one voice and eight voices with continuo, Op. 7 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Sethus Calvisius – {{lang|la|Bicinia}} book two (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), an expanded edition of book one from 1599
  • Antonio Cifra – Fifth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 11 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • William Corkine – The second book of ayres, some, to sing and play to the base-violl alone: others, to be sung to the lute and base violl (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley), also includes pieces for the lyra viol
  • Giovanni Croce – {{lang|it|Sacre cantilene}} for three, five, and six voices with a four-part ripieno (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Ignazio Donati – {{lang|la|Sacri concentus}} for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • John Dowland – A Pilgrimes solace for three, four, and five voices (London: Matthew Lownes, John Brown, Thomas Snodham for William Barley)
  • Giacomo Finetti – {{lang|it|Concerti}} for four voices with organ bass (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Melchior Franck
  • {{lang|de|Ein schöner Text Auß dem Ersten Capitel Syrachs}} for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding song
  • {{lang|la|Suspira musica}} (Musical Sigh) for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of motets
  • Bartholomäus Gesius – {{lang|la|Gratulatio musica in lauream doctoralem Jacobi Schickfusii}} for five voices (Brieg), a graduation song
  • Orlando Gibbons – The First Set Of Madrigals and Motetts of 5. Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces (London: Thomas Snodham for William Barley)
  • Konrad Hagius – First book of {{lang|de|Etlicher Teutscher Geistlicher Psalmen und Gesängen}} for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter)
  • Hans Leo Hassler – Sacri concentus Book 2, published in Augsburg.
  • Joachim van den Hove – {{lang|la|Delitiae musicae}} (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen), a collection of lute music
  • Sigismondo d'India – Second book of {{lang|it|Villanelle alla napolitana}} for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • First book of {{lang|it|motetti passagiatti}} for one voice (Rome)
  • First book of {{lang|it|arie passagiatti}} for one voice with theorbo (Rome)
  • Claude Le Jeune – Second {{lang|fr|livre des meslanges}} (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of chansons, published posthumously
  • Simone Molinaro – Concerti for one and two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Lomazzo)
  • Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
  • Third book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti for Christophoro Margarina)
  • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
  • Pietro Pace – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
  • Tomaso Pecci - Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
  • Peter Philips – Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Michael Praetorius – Terpsichore, a set of Renaissance dances.
  • probable
  • Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by William Byrd, John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons

Opera

  • none recorded

Births

  • date unknown
  • Wolfgang Ebner, organist and court composer (died 1665)
  • John Hingston, organist, viol player and composer (died 1683)
  • Vincenzo Tozzi, opera composer (died {{circa}} 1679)[http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/T.html opera.stanford.edu]

Deaths

References

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