1607 in music

Events

• January 6 – Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.
• February 24 – Première of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.
• March 1 – Francesco Gonzaga writes that the Duke of Mantua is pleased with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and that the work had "been to the great satisfaction of all who heard it". Its second performance takes place on this date.
• Fourteen-year-old Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron Guido Bentivoglio.
• Francesca Caccini marries Giovanni Battista Signorini.

  Publications

• Agostino Agazzari
• *First book of madrigaletti for three voices
• *Second book of madrigaletti for three voices
• Gregor Aichinger
• *Cantiones ecclesiasticae
• *Virginalia: laudes aeternae Virginis Mariae...
• Adriano Banchieri
• *Ecclesiastiche sinfonie for four voices, Op. 16
• *Virtuoso ridotto tra signori, e dame, entr'il quale si concerta recitabilmente in suoni et canti una nuova comedia detta prudenza giovenile, fifth book for three voices, Op. 14, a madrigal comedy
• Bartolomeo Barbarino – Second book of Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments
• Lodovico Bellanda – Musiche... per cantare sopra il chitarrone et clavicimbalo , a collection of songs for solo voice
• Giulio Belli
• *Compieta, falsi bordoni, mottetti, et litanie della Madonna for six voices and continuo
• *Compieta, falsi bordoni, antifone, et litanie della Madonna for four voices and continuo
• Severo Bonini – Madrigali, e canzonette spirituali del M. R. P. D. Crisostomo Talenti, vallombrosano, et del sig. Giovambatista Marino for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instrument
• William Byrd – Gradualia, Book 2, for four, five, and six voices
• Diomedes Cato
• *Pieśń o świętym Stanisławie
• *Rytmy łacińskie uczynione od krolewica polskiego Kazimierza, a collection of sacred music in lute tablature
• Giovanni Luca Conforti – Passagi sopra tutti li salmi che ordinariamente canta Santa Chiesa
• Camillo Cortellini – Magnificat for six voices
• Hans Leo Hassler – Psalmen und christliche Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
• Tobias Hume – Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke, published by John Windet
• Johannes Jeep – Studentengartlein, vol. 1
• Claudio Monteverdi – Scherzi Musicali, Book 1
• Asprilio Pacelli – Motets and psalms for eight voices
• Salustio Palmiero – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – Armoniosa corona, a collection of motets, psalms, and falsobordoni for two voices and continuo, also contains one piece by Giovanni Battista Stefanini
• Salamone Rossi – a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde

  Classical music

Opera

• Feb 24 — Claudio Monteverdi – L'Orfeo, favola in musica, in the Ducal Palace, Mantua

  Births

• March 12 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymn-writer
• November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, librettist
• November 6 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer

  Deaths

• March 11 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer and teacher
• June 7 – Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer
• September 10 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Ferrarese composer
• September – Claudia Cattaneo, court singer and wife of Claudio Monteverdi