1642 in music
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The year 1642 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Bartolomeo Montalbano becomes Kapellmeister at San Francesco in Bologna.
Publications
- Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale
Popular music
- Jean de Brébeuf – "Huron Carol" (Canada's oldest Christmas song)[1]
Classical music
- none listed
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
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