1648 in music

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The year 1648 in music involved some significant events.

Events

End of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
July 1 – Ambrosius Reiner is appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Innsbruck, succeeding his father-in-law Johann Stadlmayr^[1]
December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.
Alexis of Russia's 1648 law "About the correction of morals and the destruction of superstitions" (Об исправлении нравов и уничтожении суеверий) has banned all the secular music in Russia. It ordered to publicly burn all the folk instruments and those performers who disagree had to be physically punished and deported to Malorossia (modern Ukraine).^[2]^[3]

Publications

Johann Rudolph Ahle – Compendium per tenellis
Manuel Cardoso – Livro de varios motetes, officio da semana santa e outras cousas (Lisbon: João Rodrigues for Laurenco Craebeck)
Francesco Corbetta – Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Scherzi di sacra melodia a voce sola (Venice)
Marco Dionigi – Li primi tuoni, overo Introduttione nel canto fermo (Parma; enlarged, second edition 1667)^[4]
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletten met drie stemmen (Amsterdam: Cornelis de Leeuw) [with fourth part added by Leeuw]^[5]
Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes
Teodoro Massucci – Dialoghi spirituali (Rome)
Paulus Matthysz (ed.) – 20 Koninklijcke fantasien (Amsterdam: Paulus Matthysz)^[6]
Johann Rist – Der zu seinem allerheiligsten Leiden und Sterben hingeführter und an das Kreutz gehefteter Christus Jesus (Hamburg), with songs by Heinrich Pape
Heinrich Schütz – Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)

Classical music

Opera

none listed

Births

July 9 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
August 9 (baptized) – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)^[7]

Deaths

January 9 – David Gregor Corner, German theologian, hymnologist, poet, and composer (born 1585)^[8]
July 12 – Johann Stadlmayr, German composer and organist (born c.1580)^[9]
August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English courtier, amateur lutenist, and composer (born March 3, 1582)^[10]
November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580)
unknown – Michael East, English composer (born c.1580)

References

^ Hellmut Federhofer, "Reiner, Ambrosius", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ "Интерфакты. Часть 6. Балалайка" [Interfacts. Part 6. Balalaika] (in Russian). Tomsk Regional State Philarmony [ru]. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^ "Почему Алексей Михайлович приказал сжечь все балалайки" [Why did Alexei Mikhailovich order to burn all the balalaikas] (in Russian). Cyrillitsa.ru. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2019. Everyone knows about the witch hunt of Inquisition times, but only few people aware that in 17th century Russia there were burning balalaikas for the same purpose
^ Agostino Ziino, "Dionigi, Marco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Randall H. Tollefsen and Rudolf A. Rasch, "Leeuw, Cornelis (Janszoon) de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Henri Vanhulst, "Matthysz, Paulus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Griffiths, Paul (2004). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Adult. p. 156. ISBN 9780141009247.
^ Walther Lipphardt and Dorothea Schröder, "Corner, David Gregor", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Hilde H. Junkermann and Theo Schmitt, "Stadlmayr [Stadlmair, Stadelmaier, Stadelmayer, Stadelmeyer], Johann", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Diana Poulton and Robert Spencer, "Herbert, Edward, Lord of Cherbury and Castle Island", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[1] Hellmut Federhofer, "Reiner, Ambrosius", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[2] "Интерфакты. Часть 6. Балалайка" [Interfacts. Part 6. Balalaika] (in Russian). Tomsk Regional State Philarmony [ru]. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

[3] "Почему Алексей Михайлович приказал сжечь все балалайки" [Why did Alexei Mikhailovich order to burn all the balalaikas] (in Russian). Cyrillitsa.ru. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2019. Everyone knows about the witch hunt of Inquisition times, but only few people aware that in 17th century Russia there were burning balalaikas for the same purpose

[4] Agostino Ziino, "Dionigi, Marco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[5] Randall H. Tollefsen and Rudolf A. Rasch, "Leeuw, Cornelis (Janszoon) de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[6] Henri Vanhulst, "Matthysz, Paulus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[7] Griffiths, Paul (2004). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Adult. p. 156. ISBN 9780141009247.

[8] Walther Lipphardt and Dorothea Schröder, "Corner, David Gregor", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[9] Hilde H. Junkermann and Theo Schmitt, "Stadlmayr [Stadlmair, Stadelmaier, Stadelmayer, Stadelmeyer], Johann", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[10] Diana Poulton and Robert Spencer, "Herbert, Edward, Lord of Cherbury and Castle Island", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

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