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The year 1611 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 -Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Robert Johnson.
• February 3 - Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by Ferrabosco.

Publications

• Robert Ballard - a collection of arrangements for the lute.
• William Byrd - Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets
• Carlo Gesualdo - Sixth book of madrigals a5
• Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by John Bull, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons
• Thomas Ravenscroft - Melismata

Classical music

Opera

Births

• December - Leonora Baroni, singer, instrumentalist and composer (died 1670)

Deaths

• July - Simon Lohet, organist and composer (born c. 1550)
• August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, composer (born 1548)
• date unknown
  • Livia d'Arco, singer (born c. 1565)
  • Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, violinist and composer
  • Johannes Eccard, composer and conductor (born 1553)
  • Gioseffo Guami, organist, singer and composer (born c. 1540)