Johann Schein becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
Collegium Musicum is founded in Prague.
Manuel Correia joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
Librettist Andrea Salvadori becomes court poet to the Medici family.
Nicolas Vallet - Le Secret des Muses, part 2
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
Claudio Monteverdi – Tirsi e Clori (ballet)
Domenico Belli – Orfeo dolente
Claudio Monteverdi – Le nozze di Tetide (lost)
February 28 – Kaspar Förster, opera composer (d. 1673)
May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger, composer and organist (died 1667)
September - Jacques de Saint-Luc, lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
date unknown – Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
probable – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (died 1678)
June 6 - Cornelis Schuyt, organist and composer (born 1557)
probable - Krzysztof Klabon, composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)
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