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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]
August 3 – The masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed for the first time; it is repeated twice more in August and September. The masque features the music of Nicholas Lanier.
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
Antonio Cifra
- Second book of masses (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
- Second book Psalmorum, sacrorumque concentuum for eight voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi)
Christoph Demantius
- 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)
Melchior Franck
- 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
Sigismondo d'India
- Le musiche e balli for four voices and basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Vincento), a collection of balletti
- Fourth book of le musiche for one and two voices with accompaniment (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Duarte Lobo – Book of Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin)
Isaac Posch – Musikalische Tafelfreudt for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Abraham Wagenmann for Isaac Posch), a collection of dance music
Thomas Ravenscroft – The Whole Booke of Psalmes

Opera

Pietro Pace – L'Ilarcosmo^[2]

Births

March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (died 1696)
probable
- Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (died 1668)
- Matthew Locke, English composer and theorist (died 1677)

Deaths

February 15 – Michael Praetorius, composer and theorist (born 1571)
March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (born 1562)
June 21 – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, writer and composer (born 1564) (executed)
August 23 – Antonio Il Verso, composer (born 1565)
October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, organist and teacher (born 1562)
November 30 – Francesco Rasi, Italian singer and composer (born 1574)
date unknown
- Ippolito Fiorini, lutenist and composer (born 1549)
- Edmund Hooper, organist (born c.1553)
- Francesco Soriano, composer (born c.1548)