1605 in music

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The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.

Events

none listed

Publications

Gregor Aichinger – Psalm 50 Miserere mei for eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve voices (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich)
Giammateo Asola – Madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Ippolito Baccusi – Le Vergini d'Ippolito Baccusi: second book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), contains settings of text from Petrarch's Vergine bella [it]
Ludovico Balbi – Masses and motets for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes a Te Deum
Adriano Banchieri
- Barca di Venezia per Padova [it], second book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- L'Organo suonarino, Op. 13 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of organ music and instructions for playing organ during mass^[1]
Giulio Belli – Compieta, mottetti, & letanie della Madonna for eight voices (two choirs with continuo) (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
William Byrd – Gradualia, book one, for three, four, and five voices (London: Thomas East)
Sethus Calvisius – Der Psalter Davids Gesangweis for four voices (Leipzig), a setting of the Becker Psalter
Antonio Cifra – First book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
Giovanni Croce – Magnificats for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giacomo Finetti – Completorium for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline
Melchior Franck – Deutsche Weltliche Gesäng und Täntze (German Secular Songs and Dances), Part 2, for four voices (Coburg)
Claudio Monteverdi – Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Serenissimo Sig.r Duca di Mantoa, col basso continuo per il Clavicembano, Chittarone, od altro simile istromento; fatto particolarmente per li sei ultimi, per li altri a beneplacito (fifth book of madrigals for five voices), published in Venice
Benedetto Pallavicino – Sacrae dei laudes... (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Michael Praetorius – Musae Sionae, Part 1
Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis

Classical music

Opera

none listed

Births

March – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer (died 1669)
April – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (died 1674)
April 19 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (died 1672)
July 9 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (died 1659)
September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, early opera composer (died 1650)
date unknown – Constantia Zierenberg, singer and musician (died 1653)
probable
- Johann Vierdanck, violinist, cornettist, and composer (died 1646)
- Julius Johann Weiland, composer (died 1663)

Deaths

February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
September 24 – Manuel Mendes, composer and music teacher (born c. 1547)
date unknown – Pedro Bermúdez, composer and chapel-master (born 1558)

References

^ Bonta, Stephen (Spring 1969). "The Uses of the 'Sonata de Chiesa'". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 22 (1). Richmond, Va.: American Musicological Society: 56. doi:10.2307/830812. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 830812.

[1] Bonta, Stephen (Spring 1969). "The Uses of the 'Sonata de Chiesa'". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 22 (1). Richmond, Va.: American Musicological Society: 56. doi:10.2307/830812. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 830812.

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