Events John Bull is chosen as the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Elizabeth I
Publications Agostino Agazzari – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Felice Anerio – First book of (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Ippolito Baccusi for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) (3 Masses fit for both living voices and instruments of all types) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Adriano Banchieri – Second book of for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Girolamo Belli – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Giulio Belli – for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Psalms for Vespers, also includes two Magnificats Aurelio Bonelli – First book of for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Croce Masses for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), containing psalms for Terce (The seven penitential sonnets) for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), settings of the seven penitential psalms in sonnet form, translated by Giovanni Francesco Bembo Christoph Demantius – Joel, chapter 2 verse 12 for five voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman) Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Johannes Eccard (Twenty sacred odes by Ludwig Helmbold) (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for eight voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song Stefano Felis – Fourth book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Andrea Gabrieli – Third book of (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously Jacobus Gallus – for five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Alexander Philipp Dieterich), published posthumously Bartholomäus Gesius – for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann) Carlo Gesualdo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Hans Leo Hassler for four, five, six, and eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Giovanni de Macque – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Johannes Matelart – for four and five voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Peter Philips – First book of madrigals for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse) Orfeo Vecchi – (Complete psalms for all the solemnities of the year) (Milan: heirs of Francesco and Simon Tini)
Classical music Piero Strozzi –
Births September 3 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese luthier (died 1684) September 4 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch composer and poet (died 1687)
Deaths February 29 – Philippe Rogier, composer (born 1561) May 6 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535) December 27 – Pietro Pontio, composer (born 1532)
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