1652 in music

The year 1652 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar.
 * Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel.
 * Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687) becomes court musician at Innsbruck

Publications

 * Henry Du Mont – Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music

Classical music

 * Denis Gaultier – Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute pieces

Opera

 * Antonio Bertali – Niobe
 * Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea

Births

 * April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, composer of hymns (died 1712)
 * May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer and doctor (died 1732)
 * date unknown – Diego Xaraba, composer (died 1715)

Deaths

 * February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582)
 * April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, traveller, composer and writer on music (born 1586)
 * November – Charles Fleury, lutenist (born c.1605)
 * date unknown – Filipe de Magalhães, choirmaster and composer (born c.1571)