1632 in music
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The year 1632 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
- William Child becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
Publications
- Claudio Monteverdi – Second book of Scherzi musicali
- Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres
Opera
- Stefano Landi – Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.[1]
Births
- February 18 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer (died 1692)
- April 2 (baptised) – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (died 1695)
- November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer (died 1687)
Deaths
- December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck, Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister (born c.1570)
References
- ↑ Margaret Murata, "Landi, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).
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