1625 in music
# 1625 in music

The year 1625 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Jacques Gaultier becomes a musician at the court of King Charles I of England.

## Publications

* Agostino Agazzari – Eucharisticum melos..., Op. 20 (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
* Adriano Banchieri
   * La sampogna musicale (The musical Syrinx) (Bologna: Girolamo Mascheroni)
   * Il principiante fanciullo (The beginning child) for two voices, Op. 46 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of musical exercises for young singers
* Manuel Cardoso – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck)
* Melchior Franck
   * Newes Musicalisches Opusculum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of intradas
   * Gratulatio Musica for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet for the jurist Johann Bechstedt
   * Geistliche Vermählung des Herrn Christi mit einer glaubigen Seel aus dem schönen Spruch Hoseæ 2 for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
* Carlo Milanuzzi – Second book of sacra cetra concertata con affetti ecclesiastici for two, three, four, and five voices with organ, Op. 13 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), also includes arias for bass solo
* Pietro Pace - The eleventh book of motets..., Op. 25 (Rome, Giovanni Battista Robletti), prepared posthumously by his son, Benedetto Pace
* Giovanni Picchi – Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti for two, three, four, six, and eight voices with basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
* Hieronymus Praetorius – Cantiones novae officiosae for five, six, seven, eight, ten, and fifteen voices, Op. 5 (Hamburg: Michael Hering)

## Classical music

* Alessandro Grandi – O quam tu pulchra es, a concertato motet

## Opera

* Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero

## Births

* December 24 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, organist and composer (d. 1673)

## Deaths

* January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (born c.1560)
* June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, composer (born 1583)
* July 5 – Cornelis Verdonck, composer (born 1563)
* October 1 – Hendrik Speuy, organist and composer (born c.1575)
* November 3 – Adam Gumpelzhaimer, composer and music theorist (born 1559)
* date unknown – Muthu Thandavar, Carnatic composer (born 1525)
* probable – Paul Peuerl, organist, organ builder and composer (born 1570)
