Events

• End of the Thirty Years' War
  Thirty Years' War
  The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
  
   (1618-1648), which had disrupted German cultural development during much of the first half of the 17th century.
• December 6 – The marriage of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg is celebrated with a performance of Bartholomäus Aich
  Bartholomäus Aich
  Bartholomäus Aich was a South-German organist and composer in the 17th century. Little is known about his life: originally from the village of Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, he was the organist of the convent of canonesses in Lindau/Lake Constance.His only surviving work is...
  
  's musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amris et honoris.

Publications

• Johann Rudolph Ahle
  Johann Rudolph Ahle
  Johann Rudolph Ahle was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician.-Biography:Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he studied at the grammar school in Göttingen and then studied theology at the University of...
  
   – Compendium per tenellis
• Francesco Corbetta
  Francesco Corbetta
  Francesco Corbetta was an Italian guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. He spent his early career in Italy. He seems to have worked as a teacher in Bologna where the guitarist and composer Giovanni Battista Granata may have been one of his pupils...
  
   – Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto, published in Brussels
  Brussels
  Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
  
  
• Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...
  
   – Choice Psalmes
• Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
  
   – Geistliche Chor-Music (Spiritual Choral Music)

Births

• August 9 – Johann Michael Bach
  Johann Michael Bach
  Johann Michael Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach...
  
  , German composer (d. 1694)
• July 9 – Arp Schnitger
  Arp Schnitger
  Arp Schnitger was a highly influential German organ builder. He was primarily active in Northern Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany, where a number of his instruments survive to the present day; his organs can also be found as far away as Portugal and Brazil.Notable examples still in...
  
  , German organ builder (d. 1719)

Deaths

• November 17 – Thomas Ford
  Thomas Ford (composer)
  Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.He was attached to the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I, who died in 1612...
  
  , English composer (born c.1580
  1580 in music
  -Events:*The Concerto delle donne is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.*Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.-Births:*July 6 - Johann Stobäus, composer...
  
  )
• unknown – Michael East
  Michael East (composer)
  Michael East was an English organist and composer. He was a nephew of London music publisher Thomas East , although, once it was thought that he was his son....
  
  , English composer (born c.1580)