1639 in music

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The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.

Events

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
  • Virgilio Mazzocchi and Marco Marazzoli – Chi soffre, speri, libretto by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), première of the revised version at the Teatro Barberini in Rome
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Adone, premièred 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)
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