1616 in music

Events

• Johann Schein becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
• Collegium Musicum is founded in Prague.
• Manuel Correia joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
• Librettist Andrea Salvadori becomes court poet to the Medici family.^[1]

Publications

• Nicolas Vallet - Le Secret des Muses, part 2

Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
• Claudio Monteverdi – Tirsi e Clori (ballet)

Opera

• Domenico Belli – Orfeo dolente
• Claudio Monteverdi – Le nozze di Tetide (lost)

Births

• February 28 – Kaspar Förster, opera composer (d. 1673)
• May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger, composer and organist (died 1667)
• September - Jacques de Saint-Luc, lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
• date unknown – Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
• probable – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• June 6 - Cornelis Schuyt, organist and composer (born 1557)
• probable - Krzysztof Klabon, composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)

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