title: 1624 in music
text: # 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
  