1639 in music
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The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari â Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis, Op. 21 (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco)
- Francesco Corbetta â De gli scherzi armonici, a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
- Melchior Franck â Zwey neue Christliche Epicedia for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Eyrich), two funeral motets
- Duarte Lobo â Second book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Antwerp: Balthasar Moreti for Plantin)
- Alessandro Piccinini â Intavolatura di liuto (Bologna: Giacomo Monti & Carlo Zenero), published posthumously by his son
Classical music
- Heinrich Schütz â Kleine geistliche Konzerte (Small Sacred Concertos), part 2
Opera
- Francesco Cavalli â Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
- Benedetto Ferrari â L'Armida
- Virgilio Mazzocchi and Marco Marazzoli â 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 â Adone, premièred in Venice
Births
- February 4 â Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (died 1703)
- April 3 â Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (killed 1682)
Deaths
- June 1 â Melchior Franck, composer (born 1579)
- July â Carlo Farina, violinist, conductor and composer (born c.1600) (plague)
- October 28 â Stefano Landi, composer and teacher (born 1587)