1630 in music

Events

• Giacomo Carissimi becomes the chapelmaster at the Church of San Apollinare in the German-Hungarian College in Rome.
• Ján Å imbracký buys a house in SpiÅ¡ské Podhradie.

Publications

• Paolo Agostini – Posthumous book of masses (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Adriano Banchieri – (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a collection of canzonettas for five voices and a theorbo
• Ignazio Donati – for two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a book of madrigals
• Melchior Franck
• for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a motet written for the jubilee held June 25–27, 1630
• for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a Christmas motet
• (Coburg: Johann Forckel), incidental music for an oratorio performed in Coburg on June 14, 1630
• Marco da Gagliano – for four voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
• (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• , vol. 2 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Seventh book of for solo voice and guitar, Op. 17 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Martin Peerson – Mottects or grave chamber musique, containing songs of five parts of several sorts (London: William Stansby)

Classical music

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – Proserpina rapita

Births

• date unknown – Antonio Sartorio, composer (died 1680)
• probable
• Thomas Baltzar, violinist and composer (died 1663)
• Hafız Post, Turkish composer (died 1694)
• Susanna van Lee, Dutch actress and dancer (died 1700)

Deaths

• February 12 or 13 – Camillo Cortellini, composer, singer, and violinist (born 1561)
• February 26 – William Brade, English composer, violinist and viol player (born 1560)
• June (or later) – Alessandro Grandi, Italian composer (born 1590)
• June 11 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer of oratorios (born c.1567)
• June 29 – John Mundy, English organist and composer (born c. 1550)
• September 7 – Giovanni Battista Fontana, composer (born 1589)
• November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (born 1586)
• date unknown – Thomas Bateson, writer of madrigals (born 1570)
• probable – Salamone Rossi, Venetian composer (born 1570)

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