1614 in music

1. REDIRECT Template:Year topic navigation

The year 1614 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

• Hymn-writer Melchior Teschner becomes pastor at Oberpritschen.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – 4 Masses, Op. 17 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
  • (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), also includes a Venite exultemus and a Te Deum
  • (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • First book of masses (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Adriano Banchieri – for eight voices (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi)
• Bartolomeo Barbarino
  • Second book of motets for solo voice, either soprano or tenor (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano)
  • Fourth book of for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Cesare Bendinelli – Tutta L'Arte della Trombetta, a collection of lessons for the trumpet.
• Valerio Bona – (Six Italian canzonas for concerted playing by two choirs in echo, very easily & comfortably), Op. 21 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• William Brade – for six (Hamburg: Michael Hering), a collection of dance music
• Antonio Brunelli
  • Second book of for one, two, and three voices, Op. 10 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Various exercises for one or two voices, for cornetto, flute, and violins (Florence: Zanobi Pignoni)
• Giulio Caccini – Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle, con due arie particolari per tenore, che ricerchi le corde del basso (Florence: Zanobi Pignoni)
• Antonio Cifra
  • Seventh book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 16 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • for one, two, three, and four voices, to be sung over a harpsichord, archlute, or similar instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Christoph Demantius – (New German Songs) for five voices, part 1 (Leipzig: Valentin am Ende for Thomas Schürer)
• Giacomo Finetti – Psalms for three voices with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Melchior Franck
  • for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), secular songs and dances for voices and instruments
  • for four voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei for Justus Hauck), a funeral motet
  • for four voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
  • for eight voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei for Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • (Two New Wedding Songs) for four and five voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei for Justus Hauck)
• Marco da Gagliano – Masses and motets for six voices (Florence: Zanobi Pignoni)
• Adam Gumpelzhaimer – , book two, for eight voices and organ bass (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
• Filipe de Magalhães – (Lisbon)
• Claudio Monteverdi – (Sixth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Pietro Pace
  • The fourth book of madrigals..., Op. 6 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • The third book of motets..., Op. 8 (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
  • The fourth book of motets..., Op. 9 (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
• Serafino Patta – Motetti et madrigali cavati de la poesie sacre... (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Michael Praetorius – Syntagma Musicum, part 1.
• Thomas Ravenscroft – A Briefe Discourse of the True (but Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees...

Births

• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste de Boësset, composer (died 1685)
  • Franz Tunder, German organist and composer (died 1667)

Deaths

• September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (born c. 1550)
• September 26 or 27 – Felice Anerio, composer (born 1560)