1629 in music

The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.
• The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.

Classical music

• Biagio Marini – Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8
• Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae Sacrae, part 1, published in Venice

Opera

• Giovanni Rovetta – Le lagrime di Erminia

Births

• January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)
• April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)
• September – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)

Deaths

• January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)
• April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)
• September 5 – Domenico Allegri, composer and singer (born c.1585)
• October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1560)
• date unknown
  • Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)
  • Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)