1634 in music
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- REDIRECT Template:Year topic navigation
Template:Redirect category shell
The year 1634 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- February 3 – James Shirley's spectacular masque The Triumph of Peace is performed in London. The work features music by William Lawes, Simon Ives, and Bulstrode Whitelocke. It is repeated on February 13.
- September 29 (Michaelmas) – The masque Comus, by John Milton, is presented at Ludlow Castle, with music composed by Henry Lawes.
Publications
- Ignazio Donati – First book of motets for solo voice, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Melchior Franck
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for four and six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), two funeral motets
- Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), in both Lain and German
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for four voices (Coburg, Johann Forckel), a funeral motet
Classical music
- Charles d'Ambleville – Octonarium sacrum
Opera
- William Lawes – The Triumph of Peace
Births
- January 7 – Adam Krieger, composer (died 1666)
- March 26 – Domenico Freschi, composer (died 1710)
- date unknown
- Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (died 1696)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (died 1704)
- probable
- Carlo Grossi, composer (died 1688)
- Antonio Draghi, Italian composer (died 1700)
Deaths
- October – George Kirbye, composer (born c.1565)
- November 15 – Johann Staden, organist and composer (born 1581)
- date unknown – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (born 1568)