Events 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.Michael J. Levin and Steven Zohn, "Don Juan de Austria and the Venetian Music Trade". Early Music 33, no. 3 (August 2005): 439–46. Citation on 439–40, 442–44. William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Publications Lodovico Agostini Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) Ippolito Baccusi Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Joachim a Burck First book of for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch) Girolamo Conversi – First book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli) Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli) Jacobus de Kerle for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg) Orlande de Lassus for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg) Paulus Melissus – for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano) Johann Rasch published in Munich: Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs) Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc. In Monte Olivarum Salve Regina, 6 voc. Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum
Births February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer (d. c. 1619). May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632). September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634) October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622) date unknown Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651). Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656) Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer
Deaths January – Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned) February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510) August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514) date unknown Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)
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