1621 in music

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The year 1621 in music involved some significant events.

Events

January 6 - Andrea Salvadori's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.^[1]
August 3 - The masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed for the first time; it is repeated twice more in August and September. The masque features the music of Nicholas Lanier.
The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples.

March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (died 1696)
probable
- Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (died 1668)
- Matthew Locke, English composer and theorist (died 1677)

February 15 – Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist (born 1571)
March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (born 1562)
June 21 – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, writer and composer (born 1564) (executed)
August 23 - Antonio Il Verso, composer (born 1565)
October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher (born 1562)
November 30 - Francesco Rasi, Italian singer and composer (born 1574)
date unknown
- Ippolito Fiorini, lutenist and composer (born 1549)
- Edmund Hooper, organist (born c.1553)
- Francesco Soriano, composer (born c.1548)