1624 in music
# 1624 in music

The year 1624 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Antonio Bertali is employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II.

## Publications

* Juan Arañés – Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos
* Thomas Elsbeth – Ein Hochzeitlicher Gesang (Von Gott mir ist erkohren) for five voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a wedding song
* Melchior Franck
   * Neues Christliches Grabgesang for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a funeral motet
   * Neues Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 37. Psalm v. 4.5 for five voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei), a wedding motet for Johann Forckel, his printer
   * Neues Christliches Epithalamium, aus der Historia Isaacs und Rebeccae for twelve voices in two choirs (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
* Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il primo libro di capricci
* Sigismondo d'India
   * Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
   * Eighth book of madrigals for five voices and basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
* Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Poematia et carmina (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi), a collection of songs by Pope Urban VIII
* Francis Pilkington – The second set of madrigals, and pastorals, of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)
* Samuel Scheidt – Tabulatura nova, three books of organ music

## Classical music

* Claudio Monteverdi – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
* Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Ricercar Tabulatura

## Births

* Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)
* date unknown
   * Francesco Provenzale, composer (died 1704)
   * François Roberday, organist and composer (died 1680)

## Deaths

* February 4 – Vicente Espinel, writer and guitarist (born 1550)
* October – Marcantonio Negri, composer, singer and musical director
* November 14 – Costanzo Antegnati, Italian organ builder, organist and composer
