1630 in music

Events

• Giacomo Carissimi becomes the chapelmaster at the Church of San Apollinare in the German-Hungarian College in Rome.
• Ján Šimbracký buys a house in Spišské Podhradie.

Publications

• Paolo Agostini – Posthumous book of masses
• Adriano Banchieri – Trattenimenti da villa concertati in ordine seguente nel chitarrone con 5 voci in variati modi, a collection of canzonettas for five voices and a theorbo
• Ignazio Donati – Le Fanfalughe for two, three, four, and five voices, a book of madrigals
• Melchior Franck
• *Der 85. Psalm des Königlichen Propheten Davids for eight voices, a motet written for the jubilee held June 25–27, 1630
• *Neues Christliches Weyhnacht Gesang for eight voices, a Christmas motet
• *Gottfried von Bulljon oder das erlösete Jerusalem, incidental music for an oratorio performed in Coburg on June 14, 1630
• Marco da Gagliano – Responsoria maioris hebdomadae for four voices
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
• *I pastori di Bettelemme nella nascita di N. Signor Giesu Christo
• *Modulatus sacri diminutis voculis concinnati, vol. 2
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Seventh book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice and guitar, Op. 17
• Martin Peerson – ''Mottects or grave chamber musique, containing songs of five parts of several sorts''

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – ''Proserpina rapita''

Births

• date unknown – Antonio Sartorio, composer
• probable
• *Thomas Baltzar, violinist and composer
• *Hafız Post, Turkish composer
• *Susanna van Lee, Dutch actress and dancer

Deaths

• February 12 or 13 – Camillo Cortellini, composer, singer, and violinist
• February 26 – William Brade, English composer, violinist and viol player
• June – Alessandro Grandi, Italian composer
• June 11 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer of oratorios
• June 29 – John Mundy, English organist and composer
• September 7 – Giovanni Battista Fontana, composer
• November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer
• date unknown – Thomas Bateson, writer of madrigals
• probable – Salamone Rossi, Venetian composer