1618 in music

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The year 1618 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• May 23 – Beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which will disrupt German musical establishments, and will affect the nature of the music composed by those who endured the widespread devastation, famine, and disease of this period.
• The first Zildjian cymbals are made.
• Robert Ballard becomes lutenist and composer at the court of King Louis XIII of France.
• Michael East is choirmaster at Lichfield Cathedral.

Publications

• Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia – Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices (Zaragoza: Petrus Cabarte)
• Gregorio Allegri – Concerti, vol. 1
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Fifth book of (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Francesca Caccini – First book of music for one and two voices (Florence: Zanobi Pignoni)
• Johannes Vodnianus Campanus – (Two books of sacred odes) for four voices (Prague: Johann Schönfeld), book one contains psalms while book two contains hymns
• Antonio Cifra – Second book of for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 25 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Christoph Demantius
  • for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Heinrich Schönleben and Magdalena Tannenberg on October 20
  • for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johannes Reger and Susanna Reisiger on November 3
  • for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Georg Schöller and Maria Caspar Dachsell
  • for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), written for the funeral of Michael Rothen
• Richard Dering – for six voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
• René Descartes –
• Ignazio Donati
  • for two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • for one, two, three, four, and five voices, Op. 5 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • for five and six voices, Op. 6 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Michael East – The Fourth Set Of Bookes ... to 4. 5. and 6. Parts: Apt for Viols and Voyces
• Melchior Franck
  • for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • Psalm 122 for eight voices in two choirs (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • for eight voices in two choirs (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch)
• Pierre Guédron – Fourth book of for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
• Sigismondo d'India – Third book of for one and two voices (Milan: Filippo Lomazzo)
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Fourth book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Pomponio Nenna – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Pietro Pace – The sixth book of motets..., Op. 16 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Francesco Pasquali
  • Cantiones..., Op. 3 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Second book of madrigals, Op. 4 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Isaac Posch – for four voices (Regensburg: Matthias Mylius for Isaac Posch), a collection of dance music
• Hieronymus Praetorius – for five, six, seven, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, and twenty voices, Op. 4 (Hamburg: Heinrich Carstens)
• Michael Praetorius – De Organographia
• Johann Hermann Schein – Opella nova (Little new works), volume 1, a collection of sacred concertos

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – Andromeda (lost)

Births

• date unknown
  • Solomon Eccles, composer (died 1683)
  • Pierre Robert, composer (died 1699)

Deaths

• December 10 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)
• December 12 – Pedro de Cristo, composer (born c.1550)