1607 in music

The year 1607 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 6 - Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.
• February 24 - Première of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.
• March 1 - Francesco Gonzaga writes that the Duke of Mantua is pleased with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and that the work had "been to the great satisfaction of all who heard it".^[1] Its second performance takes place on this date.
• Fourteen-year-old Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron Guido Bentivoglio.
• Francesca Caccini marries Giovanni Battista Signorini.

Publications

• William Byrd - Gradualia, Book 2
• Hans Leo Hassler - Psalmen und christliche Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
• Tobias Hume - Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke, published by John Windet
• Johannes Jeep - Studentengartlein, vol. 1
• Claudio Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali, Book 1

Classical music

• Adriano Banchieri - Ecclesiastiche sinfonie
• Salamone Rossi - a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi - L'Orfeo, favola in musica

Births

• March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymn-writer (died 1676)
• November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, librettist (died 1658)
• November 6 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer (died 1655)

Deaths

• March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer and teacher (born 1543/4)
• June 7 - Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer (born c. 1538)
• September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Ferrarese composer (born c.1545)

References