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
- Antonio Cifra
- *Motets and psalms for twelve voices
- *Motets and psalms for eight voices
- *Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices
- Scipione Dentice – Madrigali spirituali for five voices
- Ignazio Donati – Madre de quatordeci figli, nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices in concerto
- Melchior Franck
- *Prophetia Evangelica for four voices, a setting of Isaiah 53
- *Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria, a collection of motets
- *Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices, a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
- *Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auß dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices, a wedding motet
- *Aller Christgläubigen bester Trost Bey innstehenden letzten betrübten und gefährlichen Zeiten auß dem 3. Capitel der Klaglieder Jeremiae for five voices, a birthday motet
- *Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices
- Biagio Marini – Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8
- Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16
- Asprilio Pacelli - Missae... published posthumously
- Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae sacrae I, part 1, published in Venice
Opera
- Giovanni Rovetta – Le lagrime di Erminia
Births
- January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist
- April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist
- Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer
Deaths
- January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist
- April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
- May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist
- October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer
- date unknown
- *Paolo Agostino, composer and organist
- *Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer