title: 1652 in music
text: # 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)
  