1629 in music

The year 1629 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.
 * The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.

Classical music

 * Antonio Cifra
 * Motets and psalms for twelve voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Motets and psalms for eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
 * Motets for two, three, four, six, and eight voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
 * Scipione Dentice – Madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Lazaro Scoriggio)
 * Ignazio Donati – Madre de quatordeci figli, nihil difficile volenti, the second book of motets for five voices in concerto (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Melchior Franck
 * Prophetia Evangelica for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a setting of Isaiah 53
 * Votiva Columbae Sioneae suspiria (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
 * Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet setting Song of Songs 4
 * Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschung auß dem 37. Capitel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
 * Aller Christgläubigen bester Trost Bey innstehenden letzten betrübten und gefährlichen Zeiten auß dem 3. Capitel der Klaglieder Jeremiae for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
 * Evangelium Paradisiacum for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel)
 * Biagio Marini – Sonata per sonar con due corde, Op. 8
 * Carlo Milanuzzi – First book of Masses a tre concertate for seven and eleven voices with four instruments and basso continuo, Op. 16 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Asprilio Pacelli - Missae... (Venice, Alessandro Vicentini) published posthumously
 * Heinrich Schütz – Symphoniae sacrae, part 1, published in Venice

Opera

 * Giovanni Rovetta – Le lagrime di Erminia

Births

 * January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (died 1680)
 * April 1 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer and harpsichordist (died 1691)
 * Baptized September 3 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704)

Deaths

 * January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist (born 1560)
 * April 19 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born c.1582)
 * May 5 – Joachim Burmeister, German composer and music theorist (born 1564)
 * October 2 – Antonio Cifra, Baroque composer (born 1584)
 * date unknown
 * Paolo Agostino, composer and organist (born c.1583)
 * Gaspar Fernandes, organist and composer (born 1566)