1637 in music

Events

• The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
• Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
• Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
• Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
• Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
• The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Classical music

• Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
• Tarquinio Merula – ''Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera''

Opera

• Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda
• Virgilio Mazzocchi – ''Chi soffre, speri''

Births

• February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director
• December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music
• date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier
• probable – Dieterich Buxtehude

Deaths

• May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer
• July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
• September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians
• dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger