1615 in music
# 1615 in music

## Events

* April – After a few months' employment at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando I Gonzaga, Girolamo Frescobaldi returns to Rome.

## Publications

* Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, and four voices, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* John Amner – Sacred hymnes of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts for voyces and vyols (London: Edwin Allde)
* Severo Bonini
   * Affetti spirituali for two voices, Op. 7 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
   * Serena celeste, motets for one, two, and three voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
* Bernardino Borlasca – Cantica divae Mariae Virginis (Magnificat) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 5 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Joachim a Burck – Schöne Geistliche Lieder über alle Evangelia auff jede Fest unnd Sontage durchs gantze Jahr (Erfurt: Martin Wittel for Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold, published posthumously
* Antonio Cifra
   * Eighth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 17 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
   * Fourth book of Li diversi scherzi for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 20 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
   * Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Camillo Cortellini – Letanie della B. Vergine for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Christoph Demantius
   * Neuer deutsche lieder (New German Songs) for five voices, part 2 (Leipzig: Valentin am Ende's Erben for Thomas Schüler)
   * Tympanum militare for five, six, eight, and ten voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann)
* Thomas Elsbeth – Festorum paschalis et pentecostes officium for five voices (Liegnitz: Nikolaus Sartorius), music for Easter and Pentecost, including introits, masses, and sequences
* Melchior Franck
   * Threnodiae Davidicae for six voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopol Fuhrmann), a setting of the penitential psalms
   * Fasciculus Quodlibeticus for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann), a collection of quodlibets
   * Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem ersten und dritten Capitel deß Ersten Buchs Moisis for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
   * Newes Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 19. Capitel Matthæi for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
   * Das Erste Evangelium unsern Ersten Eltern im Paradiß geschehen for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday motet
   * Trostgesänglein ausz dem Fünfften Capittel Jobs for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a funeral motet
* Girolamo Frescobaldi – Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni
* Giovanni Gabrieli
   * Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, for six to nineteen voices and instruments (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously
   * Canzoni et sonate for three to twenty-two instruments with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously
* Marco da Gagliano – Musiche for one, two, and three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Andreas Hakenberger – Sacri modulorum concentus for eight voices and instruments (Stettin: Johann Duber)
* Hans Leo Hassler – Venusgarten for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), a collection of instrumental music, published posthumously. Most of the pieces are by Valentin Haussmann.
* Sigismondo d'India
   * Third book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
   * Le musiche a due voci (Music for Two Voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
   * First book of sinfonie for four with basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
   * First book of balli, gagliarde, & correnti for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
* Elias Mertel – Hortus musicalis novus (New Musical Garden) (Strasbourg: Anton Bertram), a collection of lute music
* Pietro Pace
   * The fifth book of motets..., Op. 10 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
   * Il primo libro de scherzi et arie spirituali..., Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Francesco Pasquali – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

## Classical music

* Sethus Calvisius – Schwanengesang (Swan song) a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, performed for the first time at his funeral, November 27
* Alessandro Grandi – Plorabo die ac nocte, a motet for four voices

## Opera

* Francesca Caccini – Il ballo delle zigane (lost)
* Claudio Monteverdi – Second edition of L'Orfeo

## Births

* September 16 – Heinrich Bach, German organist (died 1692)
* date unknown
   * Giovanni Faustini, librettist and opera impresario (died 1651)
   * Christopher Gibbons, organist and composer (died 1676)
* probable – Francesca Campana, singer, spinet player and composer (died 1665)

## Deaths

* June 15 – Innocentio Alberti, Italian cornet player and composer (born c. 1535)
* August 7 – Melchior Vulpius, German composer, primarily of sacred music (born c.1570)
* November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, music theorist, composer and astronomer (born 1556)
