1639 in music
The year 1639 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari – Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis, Op. 21
- Francesco Corbetta – De gli scherzi armonici, a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
- Melchior Franck – Zwey neue Christliche Epicedia for eight voices, two funeral motets
- Duarte Lobo – Second book of masses for four, five, and six voices
- Alessandro Piccinini – Intavolatura di liuto, published posthumously by his son
Classical music
- Heinrich Schütz – Kleine geistliche Konzerte, 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, première of the revised version at the Teatro Barberini in Rome
- Claudio Monteverdi – Adone, premièred in Venice
Births
- February 4 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer
- April 3 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer
Deaths
- June 1 – Melchior Franck, composer
- July – Carlo Farina, violinist, conductor and composer
- October 28 – Stefano Landi, composer and teacher