The year 1648 in music involved some significant events.
Events
End of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
July 1 – Ambrosius Reiner is appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Innsbruck, succeeding his father-in-law Johann Stadlmayr[1]
December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.
Alexis of Russia's 1648 law "About the correction of morals and the destruction of superstitions" (Об исправлении нравов и уничтожении суеверий) has banned all the secular music in Russia. It ordered to publicly burn all the folk instruments and those performers who disagree had to be physically punished and deported to Malorossia (modern Ukraine).[2][3]
Paulus Matthysz (ed.) – 20 Koninklijcke fantasien (Amsterdam: Paulus Matthysz)[6]
Johann Rist – Der zu seinem allerheiligsten Leiden und Sterben hingeführter und an das Kreutz gehefteter Christus Jesus (Hamburg), with songs by Heinrich Pape
unknown – Michael East, English composer (born c.1580)
References
^Hellmut Federhofer, "Reiner, Ambrosius", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^"Почему Алексей Михайлович приказал сжечь все балалайки" [Why did Alexei Mikhailovich order to burn all the balalaikas] (in Russian). Cyrillitsa.ru. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2019. Everyone knows about the witch hunt of Inquisition times, but only few people aware that in 17th century Russia there were burning balalaikas for the same purpose
^Agostino Ziino, "Dionigi, Marco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Randall H. Tollefsen and Rudolf A. Rasch, "Leeuw, Cornelis (Janszoon) de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Henri Vanhulst, "Matthysz, Paulus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Walther Lipphardt and Dorothea Schröder, "Corner, David Gregor", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Hilde H. Junkermann and Theo Schmitt, "Stadlmayr [Stadlmair, Stadelmaier, Stadelmayer, Stadelmeyer], Johann", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Diana Poulton and Robert Spencer, "Herbert, Edward, Lord of Cherbury and Castle Island", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
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