1615 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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

• 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

Classical music

• 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)