Events

*Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.

Publications

Lodovico Agostini Lodovico Agostini (1534 – 20 September 1590) was an Italian composer, singer, priest, and scholar of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of the Ferrara Estense court, and one of the most skilled representatives of the progressi ...

– for five voices, book 3, Op. 10 (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) *

Elias Ammerbach Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach (c. 1530 – January 29, 1597) was a German organist and arranger of organ music of the Renaissance. He published the earliest printed book of organ music in Germany and is grouped among the composers known as the Colo ...

– (Nuremberg: Gerlach), a collection of organ intabulations of various composers *

Giammateo Asola Giammateo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae; 1532 or earlier – 1 October 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, althoug ...

** (

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

: Tomaso Bozzola) ** for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) ** (Venice:

Giacomo Vincenti Giacomo Vincenti (died 1619) was an Italian bookseller and music printer from Venice. He also spelled his name Vincenci and Vincenzi. He started printing in 1583. His partner was Ricciardo Amadino, and between 1583 and 1586 they printed about twen ...

Ricciardo Amadino Ricciardo Amadino (''fl.'' 1572–1621) was a Venetian printer, specialising in music. Amadino briefly attempted to publish music on his own in 1579, but was unsuccessful. He joined with Giacomo Vincenti, with whom he published over 80 books betw ...

) ** (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Girolamo Belli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Ferrara:

Vittorio Baldini Vittorio Baldini (died 21 February 1618) was an Italian printer and engraver. He started publishing in Venice, where he was born, and later moved to Ferrara, joining the court of Duke Alfonso II d'Este in mid-to-late 1582, where he was the offici ...

) *

Joachim a Burck Joachim von Burck, also Joachim a Burgk or Joachim Moller (Burg, 1546-Mühlhausen, 24 May 1610) was a German composer, notable for an early German Passion setting. As Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German c ...

– (In Holy Matrimony) for four voices or instruments (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), forty settings of hymns by

Ludwig Helmbold Ludwig Helmbold, also spelled Ludwig Heimbold, (21 January 1532 – 8 April 1598) was a poet of Lutheran hymns. He is probably best known for his hymn " Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", of which J. S. Bach used the fifth stanza for his cantata ...

Maddalena Casulana Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music.Thomas ...

– First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

Camillo Cortellini Camillo Cortellini (24 January 156112/13 February 1630) was an Italian composer, singer, and violinist. Biography Cortellini was born in Bologna, and was the son of the composer Gaspare "the viola" Cortellini. In following his father's profession ...

– First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) * Paschal de l'Estocart – (150 Psalms of David) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent) * Costanzo Festa – (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously * Andrea Gabrieli – ( Penitential Psalms) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

William Hunnis William Hunnis (died 6 June 1597) was an English Protestant poet, dramatist, and composer. Biography Hunnis was as early as 1549 in the service of William Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke. His friend Thomas Newton, in a poem prefixed to ''T ...

– ''Seven sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne'' (London: Henry Denham), a setting of the penitential psalms and other sacred songs * Nicolas de La Grotte – First book of airs and chansons for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Léon Cavellat) * Orlande de Lassus – (New German Songs, sacred and secular) for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg) * Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) * Rinaldo del Mel – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Philippe de Monte – First book of for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

– (Cremona: Pietro Bozzola & Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a book of madrigals with sacred texts *Jakob Paix – , a book of organ arrangements of dances and motets by various composers * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fourth book of masses for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano), setting texts from the Song of Songs *

Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi (born in Genoa c. 1544 – died in Prague on 15 June 1587) was an Italian music composer and Kapellmeister of the Italian Renaissance. Giovanni Battista Pinello came from a noble Genoese family. He worked ...

– (German Magnificats in the eight musical tones) for four and five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)

Classical music

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Births

* September 13 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Ferrarese keyboardist and composer (died 1643) * December 25 –

Orlando Gibbons Orlando Gibbons ( bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical famil ...

, English composer (died 1625) *''probable'' **

Paolo Agostino Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583 – 1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the ded ...

, organist and composer (died 1629) **

Johann Daniel Mylius Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 15831642) was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy. Born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of ...

, chemist and composer for the lute (died 1642) ** Nicolas Vallet, lutenist and composer (died c.1642)

Deaths

*''date unknown'' –

Sebastian Westcott Sebastian Westcott (also spelt Wescott or Westcote) (c. 1524 – 1582) was an English organist at St. Paul's Cathedral. He is especially known for staging performances of plays with the Children of Paul's. Life Westcott was a chorister, ...

, organist of St Paul's Cathedral (born c.1524)

Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

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