The year 1621 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 6 – Andrea Salvadori's poem, "Donne musiche parlano dall'Inferno" (Women musicians speak from Hell) is performed at the court's Epiphany celebrations in 1621.[1]
The San Bartolomeo Theater, the first opera house, opens in Naples.
Publications
Gregor Aichinger – Corolla eucharistica, ex variis flosculis et gemmulis pretiosis musicarum sacrarum (A Little Eucharistic Crown, woven from various little flowers and precious little gems of sacred music) (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius)
Gregorio Allegri – Motets for two, three, four, five, and six voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
Giovanni Francesco Anerio – I lieti scherzi (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of arias, villanellas, and madrigals
William Brade – Newe lustige Volten, Couranten, Balletten, Padoanen, Galliarden, Masqueraden, auch allerley arth Newer Frantzösischer Täntze for five instruments (Berlin: Martin Guth), a collection of dance music
Psalm 127 for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Georg von Walwitz and Catharina-Sophia von Löwen on June 26
Encomium Amoris, Ehrenpreyß der Liebe for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of David Fritsche and Sabina Lincken on September 18
Ehrenpreyß eines tugendsamen Weibes (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Caspar Engels and Maria Schneider
Hochzeit Gesang for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Joachim Ludwig von Penzelin and Maria Schmieden
Giacomo Finetti – Concerti ecclesiastici for two, three, and four voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
Neues Teutsches Musicalisches Fröliches Convivium for four, five, and six voices or instruments (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of secular partsongs
Herzlich lieb hab' ich dich o Herr for eight voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a funeral motet