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Events

  • Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer, is appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral.
  • Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and successor to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina at St. Peter's, acquires post at Collegio Germanico in Rome.
  • Giulio Belli, Italian composer, is appointed maestro di cappella at cathedral in Carpi, Italy.
  • Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, Italian composer of the Roman School, is appointed maestro di cappella at S Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
  • John Bull becomes organist for Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal.
  • Emilio de' Cavalieri serves as a papal spy, engaging in several secret vote-buying missions to Florence.

Publications

  • Giammateo Asola
  • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 3 Masses for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • John Baldwin completes My Ladye Nevells Booke, a manuscript anthology of keyboard music by William Byrd
  • Paolo Bellasio – Madrigals for three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • William Byrd, Catholic composer in England, publishes his , Book 2, for five and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
  • Giovanni Croce – for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), music for Compline, his first publication
  • Scipione Dentice – First book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Matteo Cancer)
  • John Farmer – Divers and sundrie waies of two parts in one (London: Thomas East), a collection of vocal canons
  • Stefano Felis
  • Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Scipione Rizzo for Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletti a5, published in Venice
  • Gioseffo Guami – Fourth book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Adam Gumpelzhaimer
  • (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a music theory textbook in Latin and German
  • for three voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
  • Hans Leo Hassler – for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a large collection of motets
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Luca Marenzio – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte – Sixth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Johannes Nucius – for five and six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • Pietro Paolo Paciotto has his first book of masses published in Venice by Alessandro Gardano
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, publishes a group of Magnificat settings, in Rome
  • Andreas Pevernage – Fourth book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: widow of Plantin & Jean Mourentorf)
  • Giaches de Wert, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes his tenth book of madrigals

Births

  • October 6 – Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer, younger daughter of Giulio Caccini and sister of Francesca Caccini (died 1638)
  • date unknown
  • Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan music theorist, in Candia (Iraklion) (died 1655)
  • Robert Dowland, lutenist and composer (died 1641)

Deaths

  • January 7 – Jacobus de Kerle, Netherlandish composer
  • February 10 – Ambrose Lupo, court musician and composer to Tudor monarchs (date of birth unknown)
  • May 23 – John Blitheman, organist and composer (born 1525)
  • July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer, lutenist and music theorist, father of Galileo (born 1520)
  • July 18 – Jacobus Gallus (Jakob Handl), German-Austrian composer (born 1550)
  • July 30 – Andreas Pevernage, Flemish composer (born 1542/43)
  • date unknown
  • Joan Brudieu, composer (born 1520)
  • William Mundy, composer of sacred music (born 1529)

References