1636 in music
# 1636 in music

The year 1636 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* January – Johann Erasmus Kindermann is ordered to return to Nuremberg to become second organist of Frauenkirche.
* February 23 or 24 – The masque, Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour, by William Davenant, is performed, with music composed by brothers Henry and William Lawes.
* Vittoria Aleotti becomes prioress of the Augustinian convent of St. Vito, Ferrara, Italy.
* King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Oxford University in August. They are entertained with plays, two of which — William Strode's The Floating Island and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave — feature music by Henry Lawes.

## Publications

* Manuel Cardoso
   * Second book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Laurenco Craesbeck)
   * Missae de Beata Virgine Maria, third book for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Laurenco Craesbeck)
* Ignazio Donati
   * Li vecchiarelli, et perregrini for two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
   * Second book of motets for solo voice, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
* Eustache Du Caurroy – Missa pro defunctis for five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
* Melchior Franck
   * Paradisus Musicus, Part 1, for two, three, and four voices with organ bass (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets setting texts from the Book of Isaiah
   * Paradisus Musicus, Part 2, for one, two, three, and four voices with organ bass and violas (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter)
* Filipe de Magalhães – Cantica Beatissimae Virginis (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck)
* Carlo Milanuzzi – Hortus sacer deliciarum for one, two, and three voices, Op. 19 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
* Heinrich Schütz – Kleine geistliche Konzerte (Small Sacred Concertos), part 1

## Births

* April 29 – Esaias Reusner, lutenist and composer (d. 1679)
