Events

Publications

* Felice Anerio **First book of for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) **Second book of for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) * Giammateo Asola ** (Venice: heirs of

Girolamo Scotto Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505 – 3 September 1572) was an Italian printer, composer, businessman and bookseller of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was the most influential member of the firm of Venetian ...

), also includes four other motets **... (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 ...

), in two parts *

Ippolito Baccusi Ippolito Baccusi (also Baccusii, Hippolyti) (c. 1550 – 2 September 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in northern Italy, including Venice, Mantua, and Verona. A member of the Venetian School of composers, he had a str ...

– Second book of masses, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) * Giovanni Bassano **Fantasies for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) ** (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation. * Girolamo Belli ** for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of music for Vespers, including psalms, hymns, and a Magnificat **First book of for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) **Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) *

Joan Brudieu Joan Brudieu (; 1520–1591) was a Catalan Spanish composer. Brudieu was born around 1520 in the diocese of Limoges and died in la Seu d'Urgell in 1591, but can generally be considered as Catalan, since the few biographical details found locate hi ...

– Madrigals for four voices (Barcelona: Hubert Gotard) * Joachim a Burck – for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymn texts 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 ...

* Gioseppe Caimo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Pietro Tini) * Giovanni Croce – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

Johannes Eccard Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) was a German composer and kapellmeister. He was an early principal conductor at the Berlin court chapel. Biography Eccard was born at Mühlhausen, in present-day Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to ...

– for six voicer (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song *

Stefano Felis Stefano de Maza Gatto Dinko Fabris''La musica a Bari: dalle cantorie medievali al Conservatorio Piccinni'' Bari, Levante, 1993, pp. 46–47: "Veniamo così a Stefano Felis, il cui vero nome era Stefano de Maza Gatto (latinizzando un soprannome ...

**Second book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) *

Giovanni Ferretti Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, best known for his secular music. He was important in the development of the lighter kind of madrigal current in the 1570s related to the villanella, and was ...

– Fifth book of for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) * Ruggiero Giovannelli – , his first book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Grandi) *

Gioseffo Guami Gioseffo Guami (27 January 1542 – 1611) (Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and instrumental mu ...

– First book of motets for five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) *

Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero is the name of: *Francisco Guerrero (composer) (1528–1599), Spanish composer of the Renaissance * Francisco Guerrero (politician) (1811–1851), Alcalde of San Francisco *Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951–1997), Spanish composer ...

– (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) * Paolo Isnardi – for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) * Jacobus de Kerle – for four, five, and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus) * Orlande de Lassus ** for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg) ** for six and eight voices (Munich: Adam Berg) **Lamentations for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg) **Madrigals for five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach) * Claude Le Jeune – (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin), a collection of chansons * Luca Marenzio **Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) **Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) **First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) **Second book of for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), his second collection of **Third book of {{lang, it, villanelle for three voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) * Rinaldo del Mel **Third book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) * Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for six and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Benedetto Pallavicino – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) *

Costanzo Porta Costanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – 19 May 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher, and had ...

– Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

Classical music

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – ''Missa tu es pastor ovium''

Musical theatre

* Andrea Gabrielli – Choruses for the play ''Edippo Tiranno'', performed in Vicenza

Births

* October 8 ( JC) – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672) *''date unknown'' **

Johann Grabbe Johann Gottlieb Grabbe (1585–1655) was a German composer. A child prodigy, he became a member of the Bückeburg Court choir at 11, learned the organ from Cornelius Conradus, succeeded him as organist, and was then, like Heinrich Schütz, awarded ...

, composer (died 1655) **

Wojciech Dębołęcki Wojciech Dębołęcki (; 1585–1646), also spelled Wojciech Dembołęcki, was a Polish Franciscan friar, writer and composer.Hieronim Feicht ''Studia nad muzyką polskiego renesansu i baroku'' PWN 1980, s. 189 - Feicht dowodzi, że skoro Dębołec ...

, Franciscan friar, writer and composer (died 1646) *''probable'' –

Domenico Allegri Domenico Allegri (c. 1585 – 5 September 1629) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Rome with his family, and was a younger broth ...

, singer and composer (died 1629) **

Andrea Falconieri Andrea Falconieri (1585 or 1586 – 1656), also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he bec ...

, composer (died 1653)

Deaths

* August 30 – Andrea Gabrieli, organist and composer (born c.1532) * November 28 –

Hernando Franco Hernando Franco (1532 – November 28, 1585) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico. Life Franco was born in Galizuela (now part of Esparragosa de Lares, Badajoz Province) in Extremadura, a so ...

, composer (born 1532) * December 3 – Thomas Tallis, church musician and composer (born 1505) Music 16th century in music Music by year