1639 in music
The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.
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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
- Alessandro Piccinini – Intavolatura di liuto (posthumous print)
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)
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