1625 in music

Events

• Jacques Gaultier becomes a musician at the court of King Charles I of England.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Eucharisticum melos..., Op. 20
• Adriano Banchieri
• *La sampogna musicale
• *Il principiante fanciullo for two voices, Op. 46, a collection of musical exercises for young singers
• Manuel Cardoso – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices
• Melchior Franck
• *Newes Musicalisches Opusculum for five voices, a collection of intradas
• *Gratulatio Musica for six voices, a wedding motet for the jurist Johann Bechstedt
• *Geistliche Vermählung des Herrn Christi mit einer glaubigen Seel aus dem schönen Spruch Hoseæ 2 for six voices, a wedding motet
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Second book of sacra cetra concertata con affetti ecclesiastici for two, three, four, and five voices with organ, Op. 13, also includes arias for bass solo
• Pietro Pace - The eleventh book of motets..., Op. 25, prepared posthumously by his son, Benedetto Pace
• Giovanni Picchi – Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti for two, three, four, six, and eight voices with basso continuo
• Hieronymus Praetorius – Cantiones novae officiosae for five, six, seven, eight, ten, and fifteen voices, Op. 5

Classical music

• Alessandro Grandi – O quam tu pulchra es, a concertato motet

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – ''La liberazione di Ruggiero''

Births

• December 24 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, organist and composer

Deaths

• January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer
• June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, composer
• July 5 – Cornelis Verdonck, composer
• October 1 – Hendrik Speuy, organist and composer
• November 3 – Adam Gumpelzhaimer, composer and music theorist
• date unknown – Muthu Thandavar, Carnatic composer
• probable – Paul Peuerl, organist, organ builder and composer