1616 in music

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Events

• Johann Hermann Schein becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
• Manuel Correia joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
• Librettist Andrea Salvadori becomes court poet to the Medici family.

Musical groups formed

• A collegium musicum is founded in Prague.

Publications

• Gregor Aichinger – Triplex liturgiarum fasciculus e tribus ac diversis optimorum musicorum modulis concinnatus... (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
• Bartolomeo Barbarino – Canzonettas for one and two voices, with some for solo voice, either soprano or tenor, with theorbo or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Valerio Bona – Lamentations for Holy Week with the Benedictus and Miserere for each day, for two choirs with continuo, Op. 22 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Bernardino Borlasca – (Jacob's Ladder) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 6 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of sacred songs for all solemnities of the year
• Antonio Brunelli – Third book of for one, two, and three voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Sethus Calvisius – (Swan song) for eight voices (Leipzig: Lorenz Kober), a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, published posthumously
• Antonio Cifra – First book of for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 22 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Ignazio Donati – (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
  • for four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of motets
  • for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
  • (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • for four voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of secular songs and dances
• Joachim van den Hove – for two voices or violins (Leiden: Godefridus Basson)
• Sigismondo d'India
  • Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Scipione Lacorcia – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
• Luca Marenzio – Motets for five, six, and seven voices with organ bass (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
• Simone Molinaro – (Loano: Francesco Castello)
• Pietro Pace – Scherzi, arie, et madrigali a 1–4 v..., Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia – First book of motets (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
• Claudio Pari – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
• Peter Philips
  • (Sacred Delights) for two and three voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • (The Spiritual Nightengales), a collection of sacred songs for two voices with organ bass (Valenciennes: Jean Vervliet)
• Hieronymus Praetorius – Liber Missarum (Hamburg: Henrico Carstens)
• Nicolas Vallet – Le Secret des Muses, book 2

Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
• Claudio Monteverdi – Tirsi e Clori (ballet)

Opera

• Domenico Belli's' Orfeo dolente
• Claudio Monteverdi – Le nozze di Tetide (lost)

Births

• February 28 – Kaspar Förster, opera composer (d. 1673)
• May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger, composer and organist (died 1667)
• September – Jacques de Saint-Luc, lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
• date unknown – Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
• probable – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• June 6 – Cornelis Schuyt, organist and composer (born 1557)
• unknown date – Johann Steffens, German organist and composer (born c.1560)
• probable
  • Krzysztof Klabon, composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)
  • Giuliano Paratico, singer and chitarrone player (born c.1550)