1639 in music

The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.

Events[]

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Publications[]

• Agostino Agazzari – Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis, Op. 21 (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco)
• Francesco Corbetta – De gli scherzi armonici, a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
• Melchior Franck – Zwey neue Christliche Epicedia for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Eyrich), two funeral motets
• Duarte Lobo – Second book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Antwerp: Balthasar Moreti for Plantin)
• Alessandro Piccinini – Intavolatura di liuto (Bologna: Giacomo Monti & Carlo Zenero), published posthumously by his son

Classical music[]

• Heinrich Schütz – Kleine geistliche Konzerte (Small Sacred Concertos), part 2

Opera[]

• Francesco Cavalli – Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
• Benedetto Ferrari – L'Armida
• Marco Marazzoli and Virgilio Mazzocchi – Chi soffre, speri, libretto by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), premièred in Rome
• Claudio Monteverdi – Adone, premiéred in Venice

Births[]

• February 4 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (died 1703)
• April 3 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (killed 1682)

Deaths[]

• June 1 – Melchior Franck, composer (born 1579)
• July – Carlo Farina, violinist, conductor and composer (born c.1600) (plague)
• October 28 – Stefano Landi, composer and teacher (born 1587)