The year 1639 in music involved some significant events. Publications Agostino Agazzari – , Op. 21 (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco) Francesco Corbetta – , a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna Melchior Franck – 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 – (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)
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