title: 1625 in music
text: # 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)
  