The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.
Events January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.
Publications Agostino Agazzari (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Gregor Aichinger Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius) for three and four voices (Dillingen: Adam Metzler) (Dillingen: Adam Metzler) Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (London: John Windet) Felice Anerio – (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Bartolomeo Barbarino – for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a song for two tenors John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices Sethus Calvisius – for four voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a motet Giovanni Paolo Cima – (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo) Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Christian Erbach – for five voices, parts 2 & 3 (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer), a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs Giacomo Finetti – for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Vespers Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Konrad Hagius – (ie. Magnificat) for four, five, and six voices (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer) Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri Second book of hymns for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously Claude Le Jeune for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously (Eight-line poems on the vanity and inconstancy of the world) for three and four voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously Tiburtio Massaino – for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31 (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile) Claudio Merulo – Second book of (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously Girolamo Montesardo – , published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar Nicola Parma – Motets for eight and twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Serafino Patta - (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
Classical music Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio), premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices (London: John Windet for William Barley for John Browne), written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire (April 3, 1606).
Opera Andrea Cima – La Gentile
Births March 13 – Giacinto Anzalone, Italian composer, conductor, and director of the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. date unknown William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697) Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675) Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)
Deaths January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530) September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553) date unknown Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550) Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)
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