1621 in music

1621 in music

The year 1621 in music involved some significant events.

Events

* The masque "The Gypsies Metamorphosed", written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed three times in August and September. The masque features the music of Nicholas Lanier.

Publishing

* Thomas Ravenscroft - "The Whole Booke of Psalmes"

Classical music

Opera

Births

*March 28 - Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (died 1696)
*"probable"
**Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (died 1668)
**Matthew Locke, English composer and theorist (died 1677)

Deaths

*February 15 - Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist
*October 16 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher
*"date unknown" - Edmund Hooper, organist


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