1639 in music

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