1640 in music

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Contents

1 Events
2 Publications
- 2.1 Music
- 2.2 Theory
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Births
6 Deaths

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

Angelo Michele Bartolotti – Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger – Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone

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, premiéred 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 29 – John Adson, musician and composer (born c. 1587)
November – Giles Farnaby, virginalist and composer (born 1563)
date unknown – Peter Hasse, German organist and composer (b. c. 1585)