The year 1611 in music involved some significant events.
Events January 1 – Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Robert Johnson. February 3 – Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by Ferrabosco.
Publications Agostino Agazzari Psalms and a Magnificat for five voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) , Op. 14 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of sacred songs for eight voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giovanni Francesco Anerio Second book of motets (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti) (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti) , madrigals for one and two voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli) Robert Ballard – a collection of arrangements for the lute. Valerio Bona (Delightful introits of the mass for two choirs, short, easy, & airy), Op. 18 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Masses and Vespers for four choirs, Op. 19 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Bernardino Borlasca – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) William Byrd – Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets for three, four, five, and six parts (London: Thomas East for William Barley) Antonio Cifra – 7 Psalms for four voices, Op. 10 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Christoph Demantius – for six voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), funeral music to commemorate the death of Christian II, Elector of Saxony on June 23 Christian Erbach – , third book, for four and five voices (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius) Giacomo Finetti for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), Vespers psalms for Corpus Christi Second book of motets for two voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli) Melchior Franck (New Trios) (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann) for five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), birthday motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of quodlibets for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), two wedding songs with psalm texts for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday song with text from Isaiah 43 Bartholomäus Gesius for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann) for eight voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet Carlo Gesualdo Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino) Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino) , for six voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino) Sigismondo d'India – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli) Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – (Rome) Claudio Merulo – Third book of (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Jonas Germundi Palma — Een christeligh jula songh... (Stockholm: Christoph Reusner) Angelo Paoletti – (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Claudio Pari – Il pastor fido, second book of madrigals for five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo) Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by John Bull, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons Serafino Patta — Sacra cantica... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Popular music Thomas Ravenscroft – Melismata Opera Giulio Cesare Monteverdi –
Births June 22 – Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer (died 1679) December – Leonora Baroni, singer, instrumentalist and composer (died 1670) date unknown – Thomas Brewer, composer who introduced the "glee"
Deaths July – Simon Lohet, organist and composer (born c. 1550) August 20 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, composer (born c. 1548) date unknown Livia d'Arco, singer (born c. 1565) Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, violinist and composer (born 1556) Johannes Eccard, composer and conductor (born 1553) Gioseffo Guami, organist, singer and composer (born c. 1540)
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