1630 in music

Events

 * Giacomo Carissimi becomes the chapelmaster at the Church of San Apollinare in the German-Hungarian College in Rome.
 * Ján Šimbracký buys a house in Spišské Podhradie.

Publications

 * Paolo Agostini – Posthumous book of masses (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
 * Adriano Banchieri – Trattenimenti da villa concertati in ordine seguente nel chitarrone con 5 voci in variati modi (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a collection of canzonettas for five voices and a theorbo
 * Ignazio Donati – Le Fanfalughe for two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti), a book of madrigals
 * Melchior Franck
 * Der 85. Psalm des Königlichen Propheten Davids (Herr, der du bist vormals gnädig gewest) for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a motet written for the jubilee held June 25–27, 1630
 * Neues Christliches Weyhnacht Gesang for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a Christmas motet
 * Gottfried von Bulljon oder das erlösete Jerusalem (Coburg: Johann Forckel), incidental music for an oratorio performed in Coburg on June 14, 1630
 * Marco da Gagliano – Responsoria maioris hebdomadae for four voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
 * Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
 * I pastori di Bettelemme nella nascita di N. Signor Giesu Christo (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
 * Modulatus sacri diminutis voculis concinnati, vol. 2 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
 * Carlo Milanuzzi – Seventh book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice and guitar, Op. 17 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Martin Peerson – Mottects or grave chamber musique, containing songs of five parts of several sorts (London: William Stansby)

Opera

 * Claudio Monteverdi – Proserpina rapita

Births

 * date unknown – Antonio Sartorio, composer (died 1680)
 * probable
 * Thomas Baltzar, violinist and composer (died 1663)
 * Hafız Post, Turkish composer (died 1694)
 * Susanna van Lee, Dutch actress and dancer (died 1700)

Deaths

 * February 12 or 13 – Camillo Cortellini, composer, singer, and violinist (born 1561)
 * February 26 – William Brade, English composer, violinist and viol player (born 1560)
 * June (or later) – Alessandro Grandi, Italian composer (born 1590)
 * June 11 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer of oratorios (born c.1567)
 * June 29 – John Mundy, English organist and composer (born c. 1550)
 * September 7 – Giovanni Battista Fontana, composer (born 1589)
 * November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (born 1586)
 * date unknown – Thomas Bateson, writer of madrigals (born 1570)
 * probable – Salamone Rossi, Venetian composer (born 1570)