Events Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua.
Publications Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano). Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously. Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Orlande de Lassus Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse) First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico) Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier) Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Christoph Praetorius – for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon
Births January 29 – Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer (d. 1633). August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist (d. 1629). date unknown William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period (d. 1630). Antonio Coma, Italian composer (d. 1629). Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628). probable Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer (d. 1609). Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (d. 1627).
Deaths date unknown – Louis Bourgeois, composer of Calvinist hymn-tunes (born c.1510) probable Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, organist and composer (born c.1490). Nicolas Gombert, composer (born c.1495)
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