Significant Events in Music: The Year 1648
The year 1648 marked a notable chapter in the history of music, coinciding with pivotal cultural shifts in Europe.
Events
- The conclusion of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) allowed for a revitalization of German cultural development, which had been severely disrupted during the conflict.
- On July 1, Ambrosius Reiner was appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Innsbruck, taking over the position from his father-in-law Johann Stadlmayr.
- The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg on December 6, was commemorated by a performance of Bartholomäus Aich’s musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.
- In Russia, Tsar Alexis enacted a law on secular music, titled “About the correction of morals and the destruction of superstitions”, which prohibited all secular music, mandated the public burning of folk instruments, and imposed harsh penalties on dissenting performers.
Publications
- Johann Rudolph Ahle – Compendium per tenellis
- Manuel Cardoso – Livro de varios motetes, officio da semana santa e outras cousas (Lisbon: João Rodrigues for Laurenco Craebeck)
- Francesco Corbetta – Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
- Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Scherzi di sacra melodia a voce sola (Venice)
- Marco Dionigi – Li primi tuoni, overo Introduttione nel canto fermo (Parma; enlarged, second edition 1667)
- Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletten met drie stemmen (Amsterdam: Cornelis de Leeuw) [with fourth part added by Leeuw]
- Henry Lawes – Choice Psalmes
- Teodoro Massucci – Dialoghi spirituali (Rome)
- Paulus Matthysz (ed.) – 20 Koninklijcke fantasien (Amsterdam: Paulus Matthysz)
- Johann Rist – Der zu seinem allerheiligsten Leiden und Sterben hingeführter und an das Kreutz gehefteter Christus Jesus (Hamburg), with songs by Heinrich Pape
- Heinrich Schütz – Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)
Classical Music
No significant classical music works were recorded in 1648.
Opera
No operatic works were published this year.
Births
- July 9 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
- August 9 (baptized) – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
Deaths
- January 9 – David Gregor Corner, German theologian, hymnologist, poet, and composer (born 1585)
- July 12 – Johann Stadlmayr, German composer and organist (born c.1580)
- August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English courtier, amateur lutenist, and composer (born March 3, 1582)
- November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580)
- unknown – Michael East, English composer (born c.1580)
References
For an in-depth exploration of these events and publications, further research into music history and archives is recommended.