Events

• Girolamo Diruta
  Girolamo Diruta
  Girolamo Diruta was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise on counterpoint, and for his part in the development of keyboard technique, particularly on the organ...
  
   dedicates part 2 of his treatise, Il transilvano, to Leonora Orsini Sforza. This is the last record of Diruta.

Publications

• Michael East
  Michael East (composer)
  Michael East was an English organist and composer. He was a nephew of London music publisher Thomas East , although, once it was thought that he was his son....
  
   – The Third Set Of Bookes ... to 5. and 6. parts: Apt both for Viols and Voyces

Classical music

• Giovanni Paolo Cima
  Giovanni Paolo Cima
  Giovanni Paolo Cima was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi, though not as well known as either of those men....
  
   – Sonata a 3 per violino, cornetto, e violone
• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610

Births

• July – Leonora Duarte
  Leonora Duarte
  Leonora Duarte was a Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family. They were marrano, meaning they outwardly acted as Catholics while secretly maintaining their Jewish faith and practices...
  
  , Flemish musician and composer (died 1678)
• December 9 – Baldassare Ferri
  Baldassare Ferri
  Baldassare Ferri was an Italian castrato singer.He was an Italian male sopranist and one of the most extraordinary singers that ever lived....
  
  , castrato singer (died 1680)
• date unknown
  • Wojciech Bobowski
    Wojciech Bobowski
    Wojciech Bobowski or Ali Ufki was a Polish musician and dragoman in the Ottoman Empire. He translated the Bible into Ottoman Turkish, composed an Ottoman Psalter, based on the Genevan metrical psalter, and wrote a grammar of the Ottoman Turkish language...
    
    , Polish musician and Ottoman dragoman (died 1675)
  • Henry Du Mont, French composer (died 1684)
  • Michel Lambert
    Michel Lambert
    Michel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher...
    
    , French composer of airs (died 1696)