Events

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giammateo Asola
  • First book of masses for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Psalmodia ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also contains two Magnificats
• Joachim a Burck – Passio Iesu Christi. Im 22. Psalm des Propheten Davids beschrieben for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
• Joachim a Burck & Johannes Eccard – Odae Ludovici Helmboldi, latinae & germanicae (Odes of Ludwig Helmbold, in Latin and German) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a shared volume of hymn settings
• Ippolito Chamaterò – Introits for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Johannes Eccard – Zwentzig Neue Christliche Gesäng Ludovici Helmboldi (Twenty New Christian Songs by Ludwig Helmbold) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Vincenzo Galilei – First book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Jacobus de Kerle – Egregia cantio, in gratiam et honorem generosi ac nobilis domini, Melchioris Lincken Augustani for six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Patrocinium musices, Part 2 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of masses for five voices
  • Patrocinium musices, Part 3 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of liturgical music for five voices
• Giorgio Mainerio – Magnificat in all eight tones for four voices (Venice: Giovanni Bariletto)
• Claudio Merulo – First book of ricercari da cantare for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte
  • Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Melchior Neusidler – Teuetsch Lautenbuch

Births

• January 9 (baptized) – Christoph Buel, German composer
• January 17 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (died 1637)
• March 7 (baptized) – John Wilbye, English madrigal composer (died 1638)
• May 14 – Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor (died 1621)
• July 8 (baptized) – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
• September 2 (baptized) – Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
• September 27 (baptized) – Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
• date unknown
  • Andreas Hakenberger, composer (died 1627)
  • Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
  • Claudio Pari, Italian composer

Deaths

• February – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer
• March – Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
• March 5 – Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
• November – Robert White, English composer
• date unknown
  • Jean Guyon, French composer of chansons
  • Antonfrancesco Doni – Italian writer, academic and musician