Events
Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Publications
Gregor Aichinger – Third book of motets (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann) Giammateo Asola – for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Ippolito Baccusi – , for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats Adriano Banchieri , first book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice) Joachim a Burck – (The Story of the Passion of Jesus Christ by the Evangelist St. Luke) for five voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard) Sethus Calvisius – for four voices (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), a collection of Lutheran hymns Giovanni Croce for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains psalms for Vespers First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) John Dowland – The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Partes with tableture for the lute (London: Peter Short) Johannes Eccard for five voices, in two volumes (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger) for eight voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song Giovanni Gabrieli – , Book 1, for six to sixteen voices and instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Jacobus Gallus – for four, five, six, eight, and more voices (Nuremberg: Alexander Philipp Dieterich), a collection of motets, published posthumously Bartholomäus Gesius for four voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn) for ten voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), a graduation motet Anthony Holborne – Cittarn Schoole (London: Peter Short), a collection of songs for the cittern George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces (London: Thomas Este) Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Simone Molinaro – First book of motets for five voices and masses for ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Thomas Morley A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke Canzonets, or little short aers to five and sixe voices (London: Peter Short) Pietro Pace – (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Asprilio Pacelli – First book of motets and psalms to eight voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Orfeo Vecchi First book of masses for four voices (Milan: Francesco & the heirs of Simon Tini) First book of motets for five voices (Milan: the heirs of Francesco and Simon Tini) Orazio Vecchi Canzonette a3 L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
Classical music
Opera
Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera
Births
July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646) date unknown Andreas Düben, organist and composer (died 1662) Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)
Deaths
January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530) June 6 – William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)