1611 in music
The year 1611 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 1 – Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Robert Johnson.
- February 3 – Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by Ferrabosco.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari
- *Psalms and a Magnificat for five voices, Op. 13
- *Sertum roseum ex plantis Hiericho, Op. 14, a collection of sacred songs
- *Chorus psalmorum ac Magnificat... for eight voices, Op. 15
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio
- *Second book of motets
- *Litany
- *Recreatione armonica, madrigals for one and two voices
- Robert Ballard – a collection of arrangements for the lute.
- Valerio Bona
- *Li dilettevoli introiti della messa a doi chori brevi, facili, & ariosi, Op. 18
- *Masses and Vespers for four choirs, Op. 19
- Bernardino Borlasca – Second book of canzonettas for three voices
- William Byrd – Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets for three, four, five, and six parts
- Antonio Cifra – 7 Psalms for four voices, Op. 10
- Christoph Demantius – Threnodiae for six voices, funeral music to commemorate the death of Christian II, Elector of Saxony on June 23
- Christian Erbach – Sacrarum cantionum, third book, for four and five voices
- Giacomo Finetti
- *Psalmi ad vesperas in solemnitate sanctissimi corporis Christi for eight voices, Vespers psalms for Corpus Christi
- *Second book of motets for two voices
- Melchior Franck
- *Tricinia nova
- *Vincula Natalitia for five, six, and eight voices, birthday motets
- *Opusculum for four, five, six, and eight voices, a collection of motets
- *Fasciculus Quodlibeticus for four, five, six, and eight voices, a collection of quodlibets
- *Gratulationes Musicae for five voices, two wedding songs with psalm texts
- *Ein schöner Trostreicher Text auß dem 43. Capitel Esaiae for five voices, a birthday song with text from Isaiah 43
- Bartholomäus Gesius
- *Missae ad imitationem cantionum Orlandi, et aliorum probatissimorum musicorum for five voices
- *Echo maritalis for eight voices, a wedding motet
- Carlo Gesualdo
- *Fifth book of madrigals for five voices
- *Sixth book of madrigals for five voices
- *Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, for six voices
- Sigismondo d'India – Second book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto
- Claudio Merulo – Third book of canzoni d’intavolatura d’organo, published posthumously
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of motets for one, two, three, four, and five voices with organ bass
- Jonas Germundi Palma — Een christeligh jula songh...
- Angelo Paoletti – Sacrae cantiones
- Claudio Pari – Il pastor fido, second book of madrigals for five voices
- Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by John Bull, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons
- Serafino Patta — ''Sacra cantica...''
Popular music
- Thomas Ravenscroft – ''Melismata''
Opera
- Giulio Cesare Monteverdi – Il rapimento di Proserpina
Births
- June 22 – Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer
- December – Leonora Baroni, singer, instrumentalist and composer
- date unknown – Thomas Brewer, composer who introduced the "glee"
Deaths
- July – Simon Lohet, organist and composer
- August 20 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, composer
- date unknown
- *Livia d'Arco, singer
- *Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, violinist and composer
- *Johannes Eccard, composer and conductor
- *Gioseffo Guami, organist, singer and composer