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The year 1613 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• On February 15, The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, written by George Chapman and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features music by Robert Johnson.
• On February 20, Francis Beaumont's The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by Giovanni Coperario.
• Monteverdi becomes maestro di capella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

Classical music

• John Cooper - Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry
• Nicholas Lanier - Maske... at the Marriage of... The Earl of Somerset
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi - Seconda scelta delli madrigale a5, published posthumously
• Salamone Rossi - a collection of sinfonie and gagliarde
• John Ward - The First Set of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Viols and Voyces

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi - Proserpina rapita

Births

• August 20 - Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, poet and composer (d. 1676)

Deaths

• July 10 - Giulio Cesare Martinengo, composer and teacher (born c.1564)
• September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, lutenist and composer (born 1560)
• ?October - Pomponio Nenna, composer of madrigals (born 1556)