1652 in music
# 1652 in music

The year 1652 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar.
* Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel.
* Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687) becomes court musician at Innsbruck

## Publications

* Henry Du Mont – Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music

## Classical music

* Denis Gaultier – Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute pieces

## Opera

* Antonio Bertali – Niobe
* Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea

## Births

* April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, composer of hymns (died 1712)
* May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer and doctor (died 1732)
* date unknown – Diego Xaraba, composer (died 1715)

## Deaths

* February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582)
* April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, traveller, composer and writer on music (born 1586)
* November – Charles Fleury, lutenist (born c.1605)
* date unknown – Filipe de Magalhães, choirmaster and composer (born c.1571)
