Events

* October 16 –

Carlo Gesualdo Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa ( – 8 September 1613) was Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza. As a composer he is known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century ...

, Italian composer of madrigals, murders his wife and her lover '' in flagrante delicto''. * Approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo,

Luzzaschi Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 10 September 1607) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority o ...

, Monteverdi, Marenzio,

Monte Monte may refer to: Places Argentina * Argentine Monte, an ecoregion * Monte Desert * Monte Partido, a ''partido'' in Buenos Aires Province Italy * Monte Bregagno * Monte Cassino * Montecorvino (disambiguation) * Montefalcione Portugal * Monte ...

and others. * The serpent is invented by Canon Edmé Guillaume in Auxerre, France – it was a common instrument in Western European churches for the next several hundred years. *

Baldassare Donato Baldassare Donato (also Donati) (1525-1530 – June 1603) was an Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was ''maestro di cappella'' of the prestigious St. Mark's Basilica at the end of the 16th century ...

becomes at St. Mark's in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino. *

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 ...

, Italian composer, is engaged as string player at court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua. *

Emilio de' Cavalieri Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 155011 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri, the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors, was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of th ...

, Italian composer, produces Tasso's ''Aminto'', likely with his own music, for the Medici, at Carnival in Florence. *Giovanni Gabrieli arranges the posthumous publication of works by his uncle Andrea Gabrieli, in Venice.

Publications

* Gregor Aichinger – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes some madrigals * Blasius Amon – (Munich: Adam Berg) * Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice:

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 ...

) * Giammateo Asola – for twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two

Magnificats The Magnificat (Latin for "y soulmagnifies he Lord) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos (). It is traditionally incorporated into the liturgical services ...

, a Salve Regina, a mass, and five laudi *

Paolo Bellasio Paolo Bellasio (20 May 1554 – 10 July 1594) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. He is generally considered to be a member of the Roman School, though unusually for the group he seems to have written only madrigals. ...

– First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Valerio Bona – ( Litanies and other laudas of the Blessed Virgin Mary) for four voices, Simon Tini ed. (Milan: Francesco Tini) * Giovanni Croce **First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) **First book of for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) * Girolamo Dalla Casa – The second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) * Giovanni Gabrieli publishes works in the '' cori spezzati'' style, in Venice. *

Jacobus Gallus Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl, Jacob(us) Gallus; sl, Jakob Petelin Kranjski; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.Skei/Pokorn, Grove online Born ...

**, volume 4 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus) ** for four voices, book 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus) * Hans Leo Hassler – for four voices ( Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach) * Paolo Isnardi – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) * Orlande de Lassus, Franco-Flemish composer – for six voices ( Munich: Adam Berg) * Cristofano Malvezzi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) *

Tiburtio Massaino Tiburzio Massaino (also Massaini and Tiburtio) ( Cremona, before 1550 – Piacenza or Lodi, after 1608) was an Italian composer. Life He was an Augustinian friar in Piacenza. He became ''maestro di cappella'' at S Maria del Popolo in Rome i ...

– Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Philippe de Monte **Third book of for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **Fourteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

– (Second book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Rome: Giacomo Bericchia for Francesco Coattino) * David Palladius **''Nuptiales cantiones'', a book of wedding music, published in Wittenberg by Johann Franck, printed by Matthäus Welack **, published in Magdeburg by Johann Franck * Andreas Pevernage **Second book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin) **Third book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin) *

Orfeo Vecchi Orfeo Vecchi (ca. 15511603) was an Italian composer and choirmaster. His most important appointment as choirmaster was at Santa Maria alla Scala, Milan. His earliest extant compositions date from 1588. Biography Vecchi was born sometime arou ...

– Masses, Sunday Vespers psalms, Magnificat, motets, and polyphonic psalms for eight voices (Milan: Francesco & the heirs of Simon Tini) * Orazio Vecchi publishes a book of

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...

s for 10 voices, in Venice. * Thomas Watson – ''The first sett, Of Italian Madrigalls Englished'', published in London.

Classical music

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Births

* July 3 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, singer, organist and composer (d. 1662) *''probable'' ** Manuel Machado, composer (d. 1646) **

Johann Schop Johann Schop (ca. 1590 – 1644) was a German violinist and composer, much admired as a musician and a technician, who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 ...

, violinist and composer (d. 1667) ** Loreto Vittori, Italian composer (d. 1670) ** Caterina Assandra, Italian composer (died c. 1618)

Deaths

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

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Giambattista Benedetti Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (August 14, 1530 – January 20, 1590 in) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Science of motio ...

, Italian scientist and music theorist (born 1530) *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...

– Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer, ''maestro di cappella'' at St. Mark's in Venice (born 1517) * September 20 **

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 ...

, Italian composer (born 1534) **

Ascanio Trombetti Ascanio Trombetti (bapt. 27 November 1544 – 20/21 September 1590) was an Italian composer. He was born in Bologna as a son of Astore Cavallari. In his family, the surname ''Trombetti'' was used because of the great ability of its members in pl ...

, Italian composer (born 1544) *''probable'' –

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 ...

, Italian lutenist, singer and composer (born c 1544) Music 16th century in music Music by year