title: 1641 in music
text: # 1641 in music
  
  The year 1641 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Heinrich Bach becomes organist of St Mary's Church, Arnstadt.
  * Franz Tunder succeeds Peter Hasse as organist of the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 3, published in Venice
  * Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
  * Cornelis Padbrué
     * Kusjes... (Amsterdam, Broer Jansz)
     * Synphonia in nuptias... (Amsterdam, Broer Jansz), written to celebrate the marriage of Everswyn and Lucia Buys
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Johann Schop – Werde munter, mein Gemüte
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Francesco Cavalli – Didone
  * Claudio Monteverdi – Le nozze d'Enea con Lavinia, premiered in Venice
  
  ## Births
  
  * October 14 – Joachim Tielke, German maker of musical instruments (died 1719)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * date unknown
     * Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer of polyphony (born c. 1570)
     * Robert Dowland, lutenist and composer (born c.1591)
  * probable – Francesco Usper, Italian composer and organist (born c. 1570)
  