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)