Events

* March 6 – Estacio de la Serna resigns from his post as organist at the collegiate church of San Salvador in Seville, in order to accept the position of organist of the royal chapel at Lisbon, starting on 1 April 1595. * April 28 – Sebastian Raval is appointed ''maestro di cappella'' at the viceregal chapel in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

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Asprilio Pacelli Asprilio Pacelli (or Pecelli) (1570 – 4 May 1623) was an Italian Baroque composer. He was born in Vasciano near Narni in Stroncone, Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy; and died in Warsaw. Life He was a boy chorister at Cappella Giulia under G ...

is appointed ''maestro di capella'' at the

Collegio Germanico The Collegio Teutonico (German College), historically often referred to by its Latin name Collegium Germanicum, is one of the Pontifical Colleges of Rome. The German College is the Pontifical College established for future ecclesiastics of German ...

Publications

Gregor Aichinger Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565 – 21 January 1628) was a German composer. Life He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two-year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken h ...

– Second book of motets (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Giammateo Asola – (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 ...

) *Johann Avianus – ''Delphica & vera pennae literatae nobilitas'' for four voices (Erfurt: G. Baumann) * Adriano Banchieri – 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 ...

) *

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. ...

– Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne), published posthumously *

Giulio Belli Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in m ...

– First book of masses and (motets) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) * Joachim a Burck – for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), includes settings of texts by Cyriakus Schneegass *Giovanni Antonio Cirullo – ''Il primo libro de madrigali'', for five voices (Venice) *

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 ...

– Psalms for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) * Giovanni Croce **Second book of motets for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) ** (Musical antidote) for four, five, six, and seven voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of capriccios *

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 ...

** (New German Secular Songs) in five parts for voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann for Andreas Wolken) ** for five voices (Leipzig: Zacharias Berwald), for the wedding of Johann Byers and Sabinae ** for six voices (

Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ...

: Ambrosius Fritsch), for the wedding of Nicolai Fritsch *

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: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song ** (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song *Albinus Fabritius – ''Cantiones sacrae'' for six voices (Graz) *Arnoldus Flandrus – ''Sacrae cantiones … liber primus'', for four voices, (Venice) *Paolo Fonghetto – ''Lamentationes in hebdomada maiori decantandae, missaque triplici modo concinenda'', for three voices (Verona) *

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 ...

– First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini), published anonymously * Andrea Gabrieli – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the second book of his organ music, published posthumously * Bartholomäus Gesius **Hymns for five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Hartmann) ** for five, six, and eight voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), wedding motets for Friedrich Hartmann, his printer *

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 ...

– Third book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) * Adam Gumpelzhaimer – for four and five voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) * 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 ...

'' (Munich: Adam Berg), a spiritual madrigal cycle setting the poetry of Luigi Tansillo, published posthumously * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) * Luca Marenzio **Sixth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **Seventh 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 ...

– First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) * Rinaldo del Mel **Fifth book of motets, for six, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) **Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) *

Simone Molinaro Simone Molinaro (c. 1570 – May 1636)''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Personenteil, Band 12, Kassel 2004, p. 308. was a composer of the late Renaissance in Italy. He was especially renowned for his lute music. Life and career Molina ...

– First book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Philippe de Monte – Seventeenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Thomas Morley **''The First Booke of Balletts To Five Voyces'' (including " Now Is the Month of Maying") (London: Thomas Este) **''The first booke of canzonets to two voyces'' (London: Thomas Este) *Giovanni Maria Patarini – Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) * Sebastian Raval – Madrigals for 3, 5, & 8 voices *Francesco Stivori – ''Sacrae cantiones'' for four equal voices (Verona) *

Friedrich Weissensee Friedrich Weißensee (c. 1560 in Schwerstedt, Thüringen – 1622, Altenweddingen bei Magdeburg) was a German composer and Protestant minister. Alongside his contemporaries Christoph Demantius, Michael Praetorius and Melchior Vulpius, he was one ...

– ''Evangelische Sprüche auß den Evangelien der vornemsten und feyerlichen Fest-Tagen . . . Der erste Theil'' (Erfurt) *Liberale Zanchi – ''Il primo libro de madrigali'', for five voices (Venice)

Classical music

Births

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...

? – Giacinto Merulo, composer and organist (died 1650) * January 26 –

Antonio Maria Abbatini Antonio Maria Abbatini ( or 1610 – or 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome. Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orv ...

, composer (died c.1679) *

April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...

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John Wilson John Wilson may refer to: Academics * John Wilson (mathematician) (1741–1793), English mathematician and judge * John Wilson (historian) (1799–1870), author of ''Our Israelitish Origin'' (1840), a founding text of British Israelism * John Wil ...

, composer (died 1674) * December 2 –

Henry Lawes Henry Lawes (1596 – 1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century. He was elder brother of fellow composer William Lawes. Life Henry Lawes (baptised 5 January 1596 – 21 October 1662),Ian Spink, "Lawes, Henry," ''Grove Musi ...

, musician and composer (died 1662) *''probable'' –

Giovanni Battista Buonamente Giovanni Battista Buonamente (ca. 1595 – 1642) was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until about 1622, and from about 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman ...

, Italian violinist and composer (died 1642) *''probable'' –

Francisca Duarte Francisca Duarte ( Antwerp, 1595 – Gest Alkmaar, 1640) was a Portuguese singer. She was active as a court singer at the court of the governor in the Spanish Netherlands. She was the daughter of the banker and jeweler Diego Duarte (1545? -162 ...

, Portuguese singer (died 1640)

Deaths

*April –

Annibale Stabile Annibale Stabile (c.1535 – April 1595) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composition, and probably was a pupil of Palestrina. He was active mainly at Rome but moved briefly to Kraków, Poland at ...

, composer (born c.1535) * July 23 – Thoinot Arbeau, cleric best known for his ''Orchésographie'', a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance (born 1519) *Unknown date ** Giovanni Rossi, Italian music publisher (year of birth unknown)

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