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Publications

  • Lodovico Agostini – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Giammateo Asola
  • First book of masses for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also contains two Magnificats
  • Joachim a Burck – for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
  • Joachim a Burck & Johannes Eccard – (Odes of Ludwig Helmbold, in Latin and German) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a shared volume of hymn settings
  • Ippolito Chamaterò – Introits for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Johannes Eccard – (Twenty New Christian Songs by Ludwig Helmbold) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Vincenzo Galilei – First book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Jacobus de Kerle – for six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
  • Orlande de Lassus
  • , Part 2 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of masses for five voices
  • , Part 3 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of liturgical music for five voices
  • Giorgio Mainerio – Magnificat in all eight tones for four voices (Venice: Giovanni Bariletto)
  • Claudio Merulo – First book of for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte
  • Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Melchior Neusidler – Teuetsch Lautenbuch

Births

  • January 9 (baptized) – Christoph Buel, German composer
  • January 17 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (died 1637)
  • March 7 (baptized) – John Wilbye, English madrigal composer (died 1638)
  • May 14 – Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor (died 1621)
  • July 8 (baptized) – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
  • September 2 (baptized) – Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
  • September 27 (baptized) – Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
  • date unknown
  • Andreas Hakenberger, composer (died 1627)
  • Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (d. 1618).
  • Claudio Pari, Italian composer (d. c. 1619).

Deaths

  • February – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer
  • March – Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
  • March 5 – Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
  • November – Robert White, English composer
  • date unknown
  • Jean Guyon, French composer of chansons
  • Antonfrancesco Doni – Italian writer, academic and musician

References