1640 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 21 – Salmacida Spolia, the final royal masque of the Caroline era, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by composer Lewis Richard.

Publications

Music

  • Agostino Agazzari – Musicum encomium, divini nominis, simplicibus... (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco)
  • Angelo Michele Bartolotti – Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence
  • Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Ottavio Beltrano)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone (Rome)

Theory

  • Pietro Della Valle – Della musica dell'età nostra che non è punto inferiore, anzi è migliore di quella dell'età passata (About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages)

Classical music

  • Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale, published in Venice

Opera

  • Francesco Cavalli – Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
  • Benedetto Ferrari – Il pastor regio, premiered in Venice
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria

Births

  • January 5 – Paolo Lorenzani, composer (died 1713)
  • April 4 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish priest and composer (d. 1710)
  • August 8 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697)
  • November 4 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato singer and composer (d. 1697)
  • probable – Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (d. c. 1720)

Deaths

  • February 12 – Michael Altenburg, composer and theologian (born 1584)
  • April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer and music theorist (born 1578)
  • June – Peter Hasse, German organist and composer (b. c. 1585)
  • June 29 – John Adson, musician and composer (born c. 1587)
  • November – Giles Farnaby, virginalist and composer (born 1563)
  • Adriana Basile, Italian composer (b. 1580)
  • Francisca Duarte, Portuguese singer (b. 1595)
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