Events

* Thomas Ravenscroft joins the choir of

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...

, London. *

Alfonso Fontanelli Alfonso Fontanelli (15 February 1557 – 11 February 1622) was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He was one of the leading figures in the musically progressive Ferrara school in the late 16th ce ...

and

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 ...

visit Venice, Florence, Naples, and Venosa. * Sethus Calvisius becomes Thomaskantor in Leipzig.

Publications

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 ...

** for four voices, books 2 & 3 (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 ...

), also includes a Magnificat **First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) * Girolamo Belli – (Motets and a Magnificat) for ten voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a mass for eight voices * Valerio Bona – Masses and motets for three voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini), also includes a Magnificat for six voices * Sethus Calvisius – (Sacred hymns in Latin and German) for four voices (

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...

: Georg Baumann) * Giovanni Croce **First book of motets for eight voices (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 ...

) ** (New musical thoughts) for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) *

Christoph Demantius Johann Christoph Demantius (15 December 1567 – 20 April 1643) was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polypho ...

– (Leipzig: Zacharias Berwald), a wedding song * Scipione Dentice – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) *

Giovanni Dragoni Giovanni Andrea Dragoni (or Draconi, c. 1540 – December 1598) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the late Renaissance, a student of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and a prominent composer and ''maestro di cappella'' in Rome in the ...

– Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) *

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 five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a wedding song ** for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a graduation song *

**First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) **Second book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) * Adam Gumpelzhaimer – (New German Sacred Songs) for four voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) *

Johannes Herold Johannes Heroldt (around 1550 in Jena - September 8, 1603 in Weimar) was a German composer best known for his six-part St Matthew Passion composed at Klagenfurt in 1594. Basil Smallman, ''The Background of Passion Music'' (1970), p. 143: "fairly fr ...

– for six voices (Grätz: Georg Widmanstetter) * Paolo Isnardi – for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) * Orlande de Lassus – Motets for six voices (Graz: Georg Widmanstetter) * Claude Le Jeune – Airs for four and five voices (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and the widow of R. Ballard) * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) * Luca Marenzio – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

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 ...

– Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Rinaldo del Mel **Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **Third book of for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Claudio Merulo – , book one for eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Philippe de Monte – Eighth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Thomas Morley – ''Madrigalls To Foure Voyces ... The First Booke'' (London: Thomas Este) * John Mundy – ''Songs and psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts'' (London: Thomas Este) * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina **Sixth book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) **Seventh book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) * Andreas Raselius – , first {{lang, de, Evangelienmotetten cycle covering the whole year to be written in the

German language German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Ita ...

Classical music

* Orlande de Lassus – ''

Lagrime di San Pietro The ''Lagrime di San Pietro'' (Italian: ''Saint Peter's Tears'') is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus (Roland de Lassus). Written in 1594 for seven voices, it is structured as three s ...

Births

February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...

– Biagio Marini, violinist and composer (d. 1663) * September 13 –

Francesco Manelli Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) ( 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Ve ...

, Italian composer and theorbist (died 1667)

Deaths

February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...

– Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born ''c''.1525) * June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532) *July – Girolamo Mei, humanist and inspiration of the Florentine Camerata (b. 1519) * July 10 –

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. ...

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