The year 1624 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Antonio Bertali is employed as court musician in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II.

Publications

• Juan Arañés – Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos
• Thomas Elsbeth – Ein Hochzeitlicher Gesang (Von Gott mir ist erkohren) for five voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a wedding song
• Melchior Franck
  • Neues Christliches Grabgesang for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a funeral motet
  • Neues Hochzeit Gesang auß dem 37. Psalm v. 4.5 for five voices (Coburg: Fürstliche Druckerei), a wedding motet for Johann Forckel, his printer
  • Neues Christliches Epithalamium, aus der Historia Isaacs und Rebeccae for twelve voices in two choirs (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il primo libro di capricci
• Sigismondo d'India
  • Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
  • Eighth book of madrigals for five voices and basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Poematia et carmina (Rome: Luca Antonio Soldi), a collection of songs by Pope Urban VIII
• Francis Pilkington – The second set of madrigals, and pastorals, of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)
• Samuel Scheidt – Tabulatura nova, three books of organ music

Classical music

• Claudio Monteverdi – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Ricercar Tabulatura

Opera

Births

• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Provenzale, composer (died 1704)
  • François Roberday, organist and composer (died 1680)

Deaths

• February 4 – Vicente Espinel, writer and guitarist (born 1550)
• October – Marcantonio Negri, composer, singer and musical director
• November 14 – Costanzo Antegnati, Italian organ builder, organist and composer