1637 in music

The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
 * Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
 * Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
 * Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
 * Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
 * The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Classical music

 * Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
 * Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
 * Tarquinio Merula – Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

Opera

 * Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda (the first publicly shown opera, premièred at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, during carnival)
 * Virgilio Mazzocchi – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12 at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome)

Births

 * February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
 * December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
 * date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
 * probable – Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

Deaths

 * May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
 * July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
 * September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
 * dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)