See also: 1589 in music, other events of 1590, 1591 in music, list of years in music. Events March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Events

• Approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, Marenzio, Monte and others
• Baldassare Donato becomes maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice, taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino
• October 16 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer of madrigals, murders his wife and her lover
• Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer, acquires his post at Mantua
• Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer, produces Tasso's Aminto, likely with his own music, for the Medici, at Carnival in Florence

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Publications

• Orlande de Lassus, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes Neue teutsche, unnd etliche frantzösische Gesäng, a collection of secular songs for six voices, in Munich
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes his second book of madrigals, in Venice
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his fifth book of masses, in Rome
• Orazio Vecchi publishes a book of motets for 10 voices, in Venice
• Giovanni Gabrieli publishes works in the cori spezzati style, in Venice
• Andrea Gabrieli publishes works posthumously, in Venice, under the direction of his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli

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Births

Deaths

• Maddalena Casulana, Italian composer
• February 4 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer, maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice
• September 20 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer