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 &mdash; William Strode's The Floating Island and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave &mdash; 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)