1615 in music

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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
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 2, published posthumously
• Hans Leo Hassler – Venusgarten, a collection of instrumental music, published in Nuremberg
• 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)