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

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)