1637 in music

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      The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.


      Events


      The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
      Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
      Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
      Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
      Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
      The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.


      Classical music


      Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
      Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
      Tarquinio Merula – Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera


      Opera


      Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda (the first publicly shown opera, premièred at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, during carnival)
      Virgilio Mazzocchi – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12 at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome)


      Births


      February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
      December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
      date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
      probable – Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)


      Deaths


      May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
      July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
      September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
      dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)

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