1640 in music
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[edit] Events
- none listed
[edit] Publications
[edit] Music
- Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence
[edit] Theory
- Pietro Della Valle – Della musica dell'età nostra che non è punto inferiore, anzi è migliore di quella dell'età passata (About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages)
[edit] Classical music
- Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale, published in Venice
[edit] Opera
- Benedetto Ferrari – Il pastor regio, premiéred in Venice
- Claudio Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
[edit] Births
- April 4 - Gaspar Sanz, Spanish priest and composer (d. 1710)
- August 8 - Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697)
- probable - Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (d. c. 1720)
[edit] Deaths
- April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer and music theorist (born 1578)
- June 29 - John Adson, musician and composer (born c. 1587)
- date unknown - Peter Hasse, German organist and composer (b. c. 1585)
