title: 1640 in music
text: # 1640 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 21 – Salmacida Spolia, the final royal masque of the Caroline era, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by composer Lewis Richard.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Music
  
  * Agostino Agazzari – Musicum encomium, divini nominis, simplicibus... (Rome: Vincenzo Blanco)
  * Angelo Michele Bartolotti – Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence
  * Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Naples: Ottavio Beltrano)
  * Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone (Rome)
  
  ### Theory
  
  * Pietro Della Valle – Della musica dell'età nostra che non è punto inferiore, anzi è migliore di quella dell'età passata (About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Claudio Monteverdi – Selva morale e spirituale, published in Venice
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Francesco Cavalli – Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
  * Benedetto Ferrari – Il pastor regio, premiered in Venice
  * Claudio Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 5 – Paolo Lorenzani, composer (died 1713)
  * April 4 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish priest and composer (d. 1710)
  * August 8 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697)
  * November 4 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato singer and composer (d. 1697)
  * probable – Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (d. c. 1720)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 12 – Michael Altenburg, composer and theologian (born 1584)
  * April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer and music theorist (born 1578)
  * June – Peter Hasse, German organist and composer (b. c. 1585)
  * June 29 – John Adson, musician and composer (born c. 1587)
  * November – Giles Farnaby, virginalist and composer (born 1563)
  * Adriana Basile, Italian composer (b. 1580)
  * Francisca Duarte, Portuguese singer (b. 1595)
  