Events Claudio Monteverdi marries court singer Claudia Cattaneo,Whenham, John, and Richard Wistreich, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Gregor Aichinger begins a two-year sojourn in Rome.
Publications
Richard Allison – The psalmes of David in meter Giovanni Francesco Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giammateo Asola (New Vespers psalms for all solemnities) for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Adriano Banchieri – for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giovanni Bassano – Second book of for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Lodovico Bellanda – for two, three, and four voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne & Scipione Vargnano) Giulio Belli – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces Valerio Bona – Fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi) Joachim a Burck – (Forty catechetical odes in praise of God for use by pious youth) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold Giovanni Paolo Cima – First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate) Giovanni Croce – Masses for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Baldassare Donato – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Johannes Eccard – for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song Thomas Elsbeth (Exceptional New Secular Songs) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann) (New Spiritual Songs that Evoke Christian Devotion) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann) John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices (London: William Barley for Thomas Morley) Ruggiero Giovannelli – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Hans Leo Hassler – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman) Anthony Holborne – Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs, both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, or other Musicall Winde Instruments (London: William Barley) Giovanni de Macque – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace) Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Tiburtio Massaino Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Holy Week Simone Molinaro First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi) First book of (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Philippe de Monte – for seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Asprilio Pacelli – (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications) Eighth book of masses Ninth book of masses Tomaso Pecci – Canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains fifteen pieces by Pecci and fifteen by Mariano Tantucci Hieronymus Praetorius – for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr) Enrico Antonio Radesca – Thesoro amoroso, first book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
Sacred music Philipp Nicolai "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"
Opera None recorded
Births March 23 – Thomas Selle, composer (died 1663) October 10 – Étienne Moulinié, composer (died 1676)
Deaths January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer (born 1547) August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born c.1553) October 16 – Jacob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1540) November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, composer (born 1528)
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