The year 1625 in music involved some significant events.
Events Jacques Gaultier becomes a musician at the court of King Charles I of England.
Publications Agostino Agazzari – Eucharisticum melos..., Op. 20 (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi) Adriano Banchieri (The musical Syrinx) (Bologna: Girolamo Mascheroni) (The beginning child) for two voices, Op. 46 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of musical exercises for young singers Manuel Cardoso – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck) Melchior Franck for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of intradas for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet for the jurist Johann Bechstedt for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet Carlo Milanuzzi – Second book of for two, three, four, and five voices with organ, Op. 13 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), also includes arias for bass solo Pietro Pace - The eleventh book of motets..., Op. 25 (Rome, Giovanni Battista Robletti), prepared posthumously by his son, Benedetto Pace Giovanni Picchi – for two, three, four, six, and eight voices with basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti) Hieronymus Praetorius – for five, six, seven, eight, ten, and fifteen voices, Op. 5 (Hamburg: Michael Hering)
Classical music Alessandro Grandi – O quam tu pulchra es, a concertato motet
Opera Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di RuggieroCusick, Suzanne G., "Francesca Caccini", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Retrieved 20 May 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). (Grove Opera article)
Births December 24 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, organist and composer (d. 1673)
Deaths January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (born c.1560) June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, composer (born 1583) July 5 – Cornelis Verdonck, composer (born 1563) October 1 – Hendrik Speuy, organist and composer (born c.1575) November 3 – Adam Gumpelzhaimer, composer and music theorist (born 1559) date unknown – Muthu Thandavar, Carnatic composer (born 1525) probable – Paul Peuerl, organist, organ builder and composer (born 1570)
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