The year 1636 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January – Johann Erasmus Kindermann is ordered to return to Nuremberg to become second organist of Frauenkirche.
• February 23 or 24 – The masque, Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour, by William Davenant, is performed, with music composed by brothers Henry and William Lawes.
• Vittoria Aleotti becomes prioress of the Augustinian convent of St. Vito, Ferrara, Italy.
• King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Oxford University in August. They are entertained with plays, two of which — William Strode's The Floating Island and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave — feature music by Henry Lawes.

Publications

• Manuel Cardoso
  • Second book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Laurenco Craesbeck)
  • Missae de Beata Virgine Maria, third book for four, five, and six voices (Lisbon: Laurenco Craesbeck)
• Ignazio Donati
  • Li vecchiarelli, et perregrini for two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
  • Second book of motets for solo voice, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Eustache Du Caurroy – Missa pro defunctis for five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
• Melchior Franck
  • Paradisus Musicus, Part 1, for two, three, and four voices with organ bass (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter), a collection of motets setting texts from the Book of Isaiah
  • Paradisus Musicus, Part 2, for one, two, three, and four voices with organ bass and violas (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter)
• Filipe de Magalhães – Cantica Beatissimae Virginis (Lisbon: Lourenço Craesbeeck)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Hortus sacer deliciarum for one, two, and three voices, Op. 19 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Heinrich Schütz – Kleine geistliche Konzerte (Small Sacred Concertos), part 1

Opera

Births

• April 29 – Esaias Reusner, lutenist and composer (d. 1679)

Deaths