1637 in music

1637 in music

The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice
*Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi
*Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.

Classical music

*Benedetto Ferrari - "Musiche varier a voce sola", volume 2, published in Venice
*Girolamo Frescobaldi - "Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca"
*Tarquinio Merula - "Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera"

Opera

*Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli - "Andromeda", the first publicly-shown opera, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice, during carnival

Births

*December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
*"date unknown" - Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
*"probable" - Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

Deaths

*May 29 - Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
*"date unknown" - Charles d'Ambeville, composer


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