1625 in music

Events

• Jacques Gaultier becomes a musician at the court of King Charles I of England.

  Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Eucharisticum melos..., Op. 20
• Adriano Banchieri
• *La sampogna musicale
• *Il principiante fanciullo for two voices, Op. 46, a collection of musical exercises for young singers
• Manuel Cardoso – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices
• Pietro Pace - The eleventh book of motets..., Op. 25, prepared posthumously by his son, Benedetto Pace

  Classical music

• Alessandro Grandi – O quam tu pulchra es, a concertato motet

  Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero

  Births

• December 24 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, organist and composer

  Deaths

• January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer
• June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, composer
• July 5 – Cornelis Verdonck, composer
• October 1 – Hendrik Speuy, organist and composer
• November 3 – Adam Gumpelzhaimer, composer and music theorist
• date unknown – Muthu Thandavar, Carnatic composer
• probable – Paul Peuerl, organist, organ builder and composer