1617 in music

The year 1617 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 6 - The Vision of Delight, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
• January 16 - Thomas Weelkes, organist at Chichester Cathedral, is dismissed for being drunk and disorderly.
• February 22 - Lovers Made Men, another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)

Publications

• Johann Schein - Banchetto musicale

Classical music

• Biagio Marini – Affetti musicali (Musical Affections), Op. 1^[1]
• Johann Hermann Schein – Banchetto musicale^[2]

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi – Il Reno sacrificante

Births

• date unknown - Jacques Gaultier, lutenist (died 1652)

Deaths

• April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)
• August 8 – Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (born 1542)
• date unknown
  • Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpet player (born c. 1542)
  • Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)
• probable – Giovanni Bassano, cornet player and composer (born c. 1558)

References

1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 147. ISBN 0-13-058496-7. 
2. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 213. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.