1648 in music

The year 1648 in music involved some significant events.

Events

End of the Thirty Years' War, which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
July 1 – Ambrosius Reiner is appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Innsbruck, succeeding his father-in-law Johann Stadlmayr
December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.
Alexis of Russia's 1648 law "About the correction of morals and the destruction of superstitions" has banned all the secular music in Russia. It ordered to publicly burn all the folk instruments and those performers who disagree had to be physically punished and deported to Malorossia.

Johann Rudolph Ahle – Compendium per tenellis
Manuel Cardoso – Livro de varios motetes, officio da semana santa e outras cousas
Francesco Corbetta – Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Scherzi di sacra melodia a voce sola
Marco Dionigi – Li primi tuoni, overo Introduttione nel canto fermo
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletten met drie stemmen
Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes
Teodoro Massucci – Dialoghi spirituali
Paulus Matthysz – 20 Koninklijcke fantasien
Johann Rist – Der zu seinem allerheiligsten Leiden und Sterben hingeführter und an das Kreutz gehefteter Christus Jesus, with songs by Heinrich Pape
Heinrich Schütz – Geistliche Chor-Music 1648

January 9 – David Gregor Corner, German theologian, hymnologist, poet, and composer
July 12 – Johann Stadlmayr, German composer and organist
August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English courtier, amateur lutenist, and composer
November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer
unknown – Michael East, English composer