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Events

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina becomes maestro di cappella at the Julian Chapel, St. Peter's, Rome
  • Andrea Gabrieli writes the music for the festivities celebrating the victory of the Venetians over the Turks after the Battle of Lepanto.
  • Orlande de Lassus visits France at the personal invitation of King Charles IX, who unsuccessfully attempts to employ him
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
  • Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, moves to Padua, Italy

Bands disbanded

  • Weimar Court Chapel Choir

Publications

  • Elias Ammerbach – (Leipzig: Jacob Berwald Erben), the first printed German organ music in tablature
  • Costanzo Antegnati – First book of madrigals for four voices with a dialogue for eight (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Giammateo Asola – , for three voices, book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons), a book of madrigals
  • Fabrice Caietain
  • for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
  • for six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Francesco Corteccia
  • First book of motets for six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • First book of motets for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Giovanni Ferretti – Fourth book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Jacobus de Kerle – for five and six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
  • Orlande de Lassus
  • (Motets for five voices, never before published) (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Francesco de' Rossi)
  • Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Second book of for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Costanzo Porta – First book of (music for singing with six voices) (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano), a collection of songs with sacred lyrics
  • Alexander Utendal –
  • Gioseffo Zarlino – , which establishes the primacy of the major mode

Births

  • January 15 (baptized) – Henry Ainsworth, author of the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought by the Pilgrim settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. (d. 1622)
  • February 15 (possibly) – Michael Praetorius, German organist, composer and music theorist (d. 1621)
  • May 17 – William White, English composer (d. c. 1634).
  • August 7 – Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music (d. 1627)
  • December 27 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music (d. 1630)
  • Dates unknown
  • Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer (d. 1652).
  • Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music (d. 1648).
  • Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
  • John Ward, English composer of madrigals (d. 1638).

Deaths

  • February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1500)
  • March 20 – Giovanni Animuccia, composer (b. c. 1520)
  • June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist (b. 1502)
  • November 21 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer and composer (b. 1523)
  • date unknown
  • Francisco de Ceballos, organist and composer
  • Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (b. c.1499)

References