1643 in music
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- Composer Johann CrügerJohann CrügerJohann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns.Crüger was born in Groß Breesen as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received his first musical training from Paulus...
meets hymn-writer Paul GerhardtPaul GerhardtPaul Gerhardt was a German hymn writer.-Biography:Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Fürstenschule in Grimma. The school was known for its pious atmosphere and stern discipline...
, resulting in a collaboration. - Johann von RistJohann von RistJohann von Rist was a German poet and dramatist best known for the hymns he wrote.-Life:He was born at Ottensen in Holstein on 8 March 1607; the son of the Lutheran pastor of that place, Caspar Rist...
publishes his Himmlische Lieder, later set to music by Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
. - Pierre RobertPierre Robert (composer)Pierre Robert was French composer and early master of the French grand motet.Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or maîtrise, of Notre-Dame de Paris under the direction of Henry Frémart, Jean Francois, and Cosset Veillot before being appointed master of music at the Cathedral of Senlis...
becomes master of music at Senlis Cathedral.
Opera
- L'Incoronazione di PoppeaL'incoronazione di PoppeaL'incoronazione di Poppea is an Italian baroque opera comprising a prologue and three acts, first performed in Venice during the 1642–43 carnival season. The music, attributed to Claudio Monteverdi, is a setting of a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello...
– Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the... - Egisto (opera)Egisto (opera)Egisto is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a favola dramatica musicale. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini, his second text for Cavalli.-Performance history:...
- Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
Births
- July 28 - Antonio TarsiaAntonio Tarsia (composer)Antonio Tarsia was a Slovenian composer.Tarsia was born in Pula. He was the major composer of the early Baroque in Ljubljana and left a large amount of Latin sacred compositions. He died in Koper.-References:...
, composer (died 17221722 in music-Events:*Tomaso Albinoni becomes opera director to the Elector of Bavaria.*André Campra becomes vice-maitre-de-chapelle of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles....
) - December - Johann Adam ReinckenJohann Adam ReinckenJohann Adam Reincken was a Dutch/German organist and composer...
, organist and composer (died 17221722 in music-Events:*Tomaso Albinoni becomes opera director to the Elector of Bavaria.*André Campra becomes vice-maitre-de-chapelle of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles....
) - date unknown – Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
, composer (died 1704)
Deaths
- February 25 - Marco da GaglianoMarco da GaglianoMarco da Gagliano was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal.-Life:...
, composer (born 15821582 in music- Classical music :*Lodovico Agostini – Third book of madrigals, for six voices*Vittorio Baldini - Il lauro secco *Claudio Monteverdi – Sacrae Cantiunculae - Births :...
) - March 1 – Girolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
, composer and organist (born 1583) - April 20 – Christoph DemantiusChristoph DemantiusChristoph Demantius was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque.-Life:He was born in Reichenberg Christoph Demantius (15...
, composer (born 1567) - May 17 – Giovanni PicchiGiovanni PicchiGiovanni Picchi was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era. He was a late follower of the Venetian School, and was influential in the development and differentiation of instrumental forms which were just beginning to appear, such as the sonata and the...
, organist and composer (born c.1571) - November 29 – Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
, composer (born 1567) - December 8 - Antoine BoëssetAntoine BoëssetAntoine Boësset,Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset , sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Regime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his father-in-law Pierre Guédron dominated the court's musical life for the first half...
, French court musician and composer (born 15861586 in music- Births :*January 20 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer *July 1 - Claudio Saracini, lutenist, singer and composer - Deaths :*August 27 – George de La Hèle, Franco-Flemish composer...
) - probable - Guillaume BouzignacGuillaume BouzignacGuillaume Bouzignac was a French composer.Bouzignac was probably born 1587 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Aude. He studied at the Cathedral of Narbonne until 1604, and was choirmaster at the Cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, Tours and Clermont-Ferrand. His motets are preserved in two manuscripts...
, French composer (born c.1587)