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The year 1642 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Bartolomeo Montalbano becomes Kapellmeister at San Francesco in Bologna.

Publications

  • Christoph Demantius – for five voices (Freiberg: Georg Beuther), written for the funeral of Hedwig on May 30
  • Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus – Part 1 of (The Prussian Feast-day Songs: From Advent to Easter) for five, six, and eight voices (Elbing: Wendel Bodenhausen)
  • Claudio Monteverdi –
  • Nicodemo Parisi – (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni), collected by his brother, Filippo Parisi, and including two of his compositions
  • Johann Rist – (Hamburg: Jacob Rebenlein), a collection of pastoral songs, music by Heinrich Pape
  • Jean de Brébeuf – "Huron Carol" (Canada's oldest Christmas song)

Classical music

  • Cornelis Padbrué – Synphonia in nuptias..., written for the wedding of Mathaeus Steyn and Maria van Napels

Opera

  • Francesco Cavalli – Amore innamorato
  • Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea
  • Luigi Rossi – Il Palazzo incantato

Births

  • 11 January – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist
  • 23 September – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian composer (died 1678)
  • 6 December – Johann Christoph Bach, composer (died 1703)
  • date unknown – Benedictus Buns, Dutch composer

Deaths

  • date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Italian composer and violinist (born c.1595)
  • Johann Daniel Mylius, composer for the lute (born c.1583)
  • probable – Nicolas Vallet, lutenist and composer (born c.1583)

References