The year 1613 in music involved some significant events.

Contents

• Events
• Publications
• Classical music
• Opera
• Births
• Deaths
• References

Events

• February 15 – The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn , written by George Chapman and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features music by Robert Johnson.
• February 20 – Francis Beaumont's The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by John Coprario.
• December 26 – The Maske of Flowers by Thomas Campion and John Coprario is performed for the wedding of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard at Whitehall Palace.
• Monteverdi becomes maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
• date unknown – Michael Praetorius joins the court of John George I, Elector of Saxony.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Dialogici concentus..., Op. 16 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Gregor Aichinger – Zwey Klaglieder vom Tod und letzten Gericht (Dillingen: Gregor Hänlin)
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
  • Third book of motets (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Antiphons (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • First book of Sacri concentus (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Adriano Banchieri
  • Salmi festivi intieri, coristi, allegri, et moderni, Op. 33 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of psalms for four voices
  • Third book of nuovi pensieri ecclesiastici, Op. 35 (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi), a Vespers collection for one and two voices, harpsichord, theorbo, archlute, and organ
  • Duo in contrapunto sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, utile a gli figliuoli, & principianti, che desiderano praticare le note cantabili, con le reali mutationi semplicemente, & con il maestro (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of musical exercises for aspiring singers
  • Duo spartiti al contrapunto in corrispondenza tra gli dodeci modi & otto toni... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of musical exercises for instrumentalists
  • Canoni musicali for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Lodovico Bellanda – Sacre laudi for solo voice with organ, theorbo, or similar instrument (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Giulio Belli – Concerti ecclesiastici for two and three voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Severo Bonini – Lamento d'Arianna in stile recitativo (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Antonio Brunelli – Arie, scherzi, canzonette, madrigali for one, two, and three voices, Op. 9 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giulio Caccini – Fuggilotio musicale, Op. 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of madrigals, sonnets, arias, canzonas, and scherzi for one and two voices with archlute, harpsichord or other instrument
• Manuel Cardoso – Cantica Beatae Mariae Virgins for four and five voices (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck)
• Antonio Cifra
  • First book of Li diversi scherzi for one, two, and three voices, Op. 12 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Sixth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Second book of Li diversi scherzi for one, two, and three voices, Op. 14 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Litaniae Deiparae Virginis for eight and twelve voices, Op. 15 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• John Coprario – Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry for one voice with lute or viol (London: John Browne), lyrics by Thomas Campion, commemorating the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on the previous November 6
• Christoph Demantius – Fasciculus chorodiarum for five voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann), a collection of German and Polish dances
• Giacomo Finetti
  • Third book of cantiones for two voices with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
  • Fourth book of sacrae cantiones for three voices with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), also includes litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary for four voices without organ
• Melchior Franck
  • Viridarium musicum (Musical Garden) for five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten voices (Nuremberg: Georg Fuhrmann), a collection of motets
  • Concentus musicales for six and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of wedding songs
  • Ferculum Quodlibeticum for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a collection of quodlibets
• Pierre Guédron – Second book of airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Seconda scelta delli madrigale a5, published posthumously
• Giovanni de Macque – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Pomponio Nenna – First book of madrigals for four voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Gargano & Lucretio Nucci)
• Pietro Pace
  • The first book of motets for 1. 2. 3. & 4. voices..., Op. 5 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • The first book of madrigals for solo voice... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Serafino Patta – Second book of sacred songs (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Peter Philips
  • Cantiones sacrae, octonis vocibus (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Gemmulae sacrae (Sacred Little Gems) for two and three voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
• Francis Pilkington – The first set of madrigals and pastorals of 3. 4. and 5. parts (London: William Barley for M. Lownes, J. Browne and Thomas Snodham)
• Salamone Rossi – a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde
• John Ward – The First Set of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Viols and Voyces

Classical music

• John Bull – God the father, God the son (performed at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V, Elector Palatine).
• Nicholas Lanier – Maske... at the Marriage of... The Earl of Somerset

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi – Proserpina rapita ^[1]

Births

• April 19 – Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1661)
• August 20 – Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, poet and composer (d. 1676)

Deaths

• July 10 – Giulio Cesare Martinengo, composer and teacher (born c.1564)
• August 18 – Giovanni Artusi, music theorist and composer (born c. 1540)
• September 8 – Carlo Gesualdo, lutenist and composer (born 1560)
• ?October – Pomponio Nenna, composer of madrigals (born 1556)

References