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)