Events

• Beginning of the Thirty Years' War
  Thirty Years' War
  The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
  
   (1618–1648), which will disrupt German musical establishments, and will affect the nature of the music composed by those who endured the widespread devastation, famine, and disease of this period.
• Robert Ballard
  Robert Ballard (lutenist)
  Robert Ballard was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris...
  
   becomes lutenist and composer at the court of King Louis XIII of France
  Louis XIII of France
  Louis XIII was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1610 to 1643.Louis was only eight years old when he succeeded his father. His mother, Marie de Medici, acted as regent during Louis' minority...
  
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Publications

• Michael East – The Fourth Set Of Bookes ... to 4. 5. and 6. Parts: Apt for Viols and Voyces
• Johann Hermann Schein – Opella nova (Little new works), volume 1, a collection of sacred concertos
• Renee Descartes - "Compendium Musicae"

Births

• date unknown
  • Solomon Eccles
    Solomon Eccles
    Solomon Eccles , also known as Solomon Eagle, was an English composer.-Life:Solomon Eagle was mentioned in Daniel Defoe's semi-fictional account of the plague of 1665 titled A Journal of the Plague Year. Defoe wrote:...
    
    , composer (died 1683)
  • Pierre Robert
    Pierre Robert (composer)
    Pierre Robert was French composer and early master of the French grand motet.Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or maîtrise, of Notre-Dame de Paris under the direction of Henry Frémart, Jean Francois, and Cosset Veillot before being appointed master of music at the Cathedral of Senlis...
    
    , composer (died 1699)

Deaths

• December 10 – Giulio Caccini
  Giulio Caccini
  Giulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...
  
  , Italian composer (born 1551)
• December 12 – Pedro de Cristo
  Pedro de Cristo
  Pedro de Cristo was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance. He is one of the most important Portuguese polyphonists of the 16th and 17th centuries.-Life:...
  
  , composer (born c.1550)