# 1621 in music

The year 1621 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* January 6 – Andrea Salvadori's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.
* August 3 – The masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed for the first time; it is repeated twice more in August and September. The masque features the music of Nicholas Lanier.
* The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples.

## Publications

* Gregor Aichinger – Corolla eucharistica, ex variis flosculis et gemmulis pretiosis musicarum sacrarum (A Little Eucharistic Crown, woven from various little flowers and precious little gems of sacred music) (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius)
* Gregorio Allegri – Motets for two, three, four, five, and six voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
* Giovanni Francesco Anerio – I lieti scherzi (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of arias, villanellas, and madrigals
* William Brade – Newe lustige Volten, Couranten, Balletten, Padoanen, Galliarden, Masqueraden, auch allerley arth Newer Frantzösischer Täntze for five instruments (Berlin: Martin Guth), a collection of dance music
* Antonio Cifra
** Second book of masses (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
** Second book Psalmorum, sacrorumque concentuum for eight voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
** Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
* Christoph Demantius
** Psalm 127 for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Georg von Walwitz and Catharina-Sophia von Löwen on June 26
** Encomium Amoris, Ehrenpreyß der Liebe for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of David Fritsche and Sabina Lincken on September 18
** Ehrenpreyß eines tugendsamen Weibes (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Caspar Engels and Maria Schneider
** Hochzeit Gesang for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Joachim Ludwig von Penzelin and Maria Schmieden
* Giacomo Finetti – Concerti ecclesiastici for two, three, and four voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
* Melchior Franck
** Neues Teutsches Musicalisches Fröliches Convivium for four, five, and six voices or instruments (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of secular partsongs
** Herzlich lieb hab' ich dich o Herr for eight voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a funeral motet
* Sigismondo d'India
** Le musiche e balli for four voices and basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincento), a collection of balletti
** Fourth book of le musiche for one and two voices with accompaniment (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
* Duarte Lobo – Book of Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin)
* Isaac Posch – Musikalische Tafelfreudt for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Abraham Wagenmann for Isaac Posch), a collection of dance music
* Thomas Ravenscroft – The Whole Booke of Psalmes

## Opera

* Pietro Pace – L'Ilarcosmo

## Births

* March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (died 1696)
* probable
** Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (died 1668)
** Matthew Locke, English composer and theorist (died 1677)

## Deaths

* February 15 – Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist (born 1571)
* March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (born 1562)
* June 21 – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, writer and composer (born 1564) (executed)
* August 23 – Antonio Il Verso, composer (born 1565)
* October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher (born 1562)
* November 30 – Francesco Rasi, Italian singer and composer (born 1574)
* date unknown
** Ippolito Fiorini, lutenist and composer (born 1549)
** Edmund Hooper, organist (born c.1553)
** Francesco Soriano, composer (born c.1548)