Events April – After a few months' employment at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando I Gonzaga, Girolamo Frescobaldi returns to Rome.Hammond, Frederick. Girolamo Frescobaldi.47, 54.
Publications Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, and four voices, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) John Amner – Sacred hymnes of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts for voyces and vyols (London: Edwin Allde) Severo Bonini for two voices, Op. 7 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano) , motets for one, two, and three voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano) Bernardino Borlasca – (Magnificat) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 5 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Joachim a Burck – (Erfurt: Martin Wittel for Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold, published posthumously Antonio Cifra Eighth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 17 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Fourth book of for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 20 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Camillo Cortellini – for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Christoph Demantius (New German Songs) for five voices, part 2 (Leipzig: Valentin am Ende's Erben for Thomas Schüler) for five, six, eight, and ten voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann) Thomas Elsbeth – for five voices (Liegnitz: Nikolaus Sartorius), music for Easter and Pentecost, including introits, masses, and sequences Melchior Franck for six voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopol Fuhrmann), a setting of the penitential psalms for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann), a collection of quodlibets for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday motet for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a funeral motet Girolamo Frescobaldi – Primo libro di toccate and Libro di recercari et canzoni Giovanni Gabrieli , Book 2, for six to nineteen voices and instruments (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously for three to twenty-two instruments with organ bass (Venice: Bartolomeo Magno for Gardano), published posthumously Marco da Gagliano – for one, two, and three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Andreas Hakenberger – for eight voices and instruments (Stettin: Johann Duber) Hans Leo Hassler – for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), a collection of instrumental music, published posthumously. Most of the pieces are by Valentin Haussmann. Sigismondo d'India Third book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano) (Music for Two Voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger First book of for four with basso continuo (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) First book of for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti) Elias Mertel – (New Musical Garden) (Strasbourg: Anton Bertram), a collection of lute music Pietro Pace The fifth book of motets..., Op. 10 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) , Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Francesco Pasquali – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Classical music Sethus Calvisius – (Swan song) a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, performed for the first time at his funeral, November 27 Alessandro Grandi – , a motet for four voices
Opera Francesca Caccini – Il ballo delle zigane (lost) Claudio Monteverdi – Second edition of L'Orfeo
Births September 16 – Heinrich Bach, German organist (died 1692) date unknown Giovanni Faustini, librettist and opera impresario (died 1651) Christopher Gibbons, organist and composer (died 1676) probable – Francesca Campana, singer, spinet player and composer (died 1665)
Deaths June 15 – Innocentio Alberti, Italian cornet player and composer (born c. 1535) August 7 – Melchior Vulpius, German composer, primarily of sacred music (born c.1570) November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, music theorist, composer and astronomer (born 1556)
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