1615 in music

Events

• April – After a few months' employment at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando I Gonzaga, Girolamo Frescobaldi returns to Rome.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, and four voices, Op. 18
• John Amner – Sacred hymnes of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts for voyces and vyols
• Severo Bonini
• *Affetti spirituali for two voices, Op. 7
• *Serena celeste, motets for one, two, and three voices, Op. 8
• Bernardino Borlasca – Cantica divae Mariae Virginis for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 5
• Joachim a Burck – Schöne Geistliche Lieder über alle Evangelia auff jede Fest unnd Sontage durchs gantze Jahr, texts by Ludwig Helmbold, published posthumously
• Antonio Cifra
• *Eighth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 17
• *Fourth book of Li diversi scherzi for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 20
• *Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Camillo Cortellini – Letanie della B. Vergine for five, six, seven, and eight voices
• Christoph Demantius
• *Neuer deutsche lieder for five voices, part 2
• *Tympanum militare for five, six, eight, and ten voices or instruments
• Thomas Elsbeth – Festorum paschalis et pentecostes officium for five voices, music for Easter and Pentecost, including introits, masses, and sequences
• Melchior Franck
• *Threnodiae Davidicae for six voices, a setting of the penitential psalms
• *Fasciculus Quodlibeticus for four, five, and six voices, a collection of quodlibets
• *Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem ersten und dritten Capitel deß Ersten Buchs Moisis for five voices, a wedding motet
• *Newes Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 19. Capitel Matthæi for six voices, a wedding motet
• *Das Erste Evangelium unsern Ersten Eltern im Paradiß geschehen for four voices, a birthday motet
• *Trostgesänglein ausz dem Fünfften Capittel Jobs for four voices, a funeral motet
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni
• Giovanni Gabrieli
• *Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, for six to nineteen voices and instruments, published posthumously
• *Canzoni et sonate for three to twenty-two instruments with organ bass, published posthumously
• Marco da Gagliano – Musiche for one, two, and three voices
• Andreas Hakenberger – Sacri modulorum concentus for eight voices and instruments
• Hans Leo Hassler – Venusgarten for four, five, and six voices, a collection of instrumental music, published posthumously. Most of the pieces are by Valentin Haussmann.
• Sigismondo d'India
• *Third book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo
• *Le musiche a due voci
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
• *First book of sinfonie for four with basso continuo
• *First book of balli, gagliarde, & correnti for four voices
• Elias Mertel – Hortus musicalis novus, a collection of lute music
• Pietro Pace
• *The fifth book of motets..., Op. 10
• *Il primo libro de scherzi et arie spirituali..., Op. 12
• Francesco Pasquali – Madrigals for five voices
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of madrigals for five voices

Classical music

• Sethus Calvisius – Schwanengesang a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, performed for the first time at his funeral, November 27
• Alessandro Grandi – Plorabo die ac nocte, a motet for four voices

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – Il ballo delle zigane
• Claudio Monteverdi – Second edition of ''L'Orfeo''

Births

• September 16 – Heinrich Bach, German organist
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Faustini, librettist and opera impresario
• *Christopher Gibbons, organist and composer
• probable – Francesca Campana, singer, spinet player and composer

Deaths

• June 15 – Innocentio Alberti, Italian cornet player and composer
• August 7 – Melchior Vulpius, German composer, primarily of sacred music
• November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, music theorist, composer and astronomer