title: 1642 in music
text: # 1642 in music
  
  The year 1642 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Bartolomeo Montalbano becomes Kapellmeister at San Francesco in Bologna.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Christoph Demantius – Morgenröthe for five voices (Freiberg: Georg Beuther), written for the funeral of Hedwig on May 30
  * Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus – Part 1 of Der Preussischen Fest-Lieder/ vom Advent an biß Ostern (The Prussian Feast-day Songs: From Advent to Easter) for five, six, and eight voices (Elbing: Wendel Bodenhausen)
  * Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale
  * Nicodemo Parisi – Messa e salmi concertati a 5 voci facili da cantarsi... (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni), collected by his brother, Filippo Parisi, and including two of his compositions
  * Johann Rist – Des Daphnis aus Cimbrien Galathee (Hamburg: Jacob Rebenlein), a collection of pastoral songs, music by Heinrich Pape
  
  ## Popular music
  
  * Jean de Brébeuf – "Huron Carol" (Canada's oldest Christmas song)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Cornelis Padbrué – Synphonia in nuptias..., written for the wedding of Mathaeus Steyn and Maria van Napels
  
  ## 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)
  