1639 in music explained

The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Latin: Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis, Op. 21 (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco)
• Francesco Corbetta – Italian: De gli scherzi armonici, a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
• Melchior Franck – German: 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 – Italian: 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)