See also: 1590 in music, other events of 1591, 1592 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1589 in music, other events of 1590, 1591 in music, list of years in music. ... Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Events

• Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer, appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral
• Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and successor to Palestrina at St. Peter's, acquires post at Collegio Germanico in Rome
• Giulio Belli, Italian composer, appointed maestro di cappella at cathedral in Carpi, Italy
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, Italian composer of the Roman School, appointed maestro di cappella at S Luigi dei Francesi in Rome
• John Bull becomes organist for Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal
• Emilio de' Cavalieri serves as a papal spy, engaging in several secret vote-buying missions to Florence

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Publications

• Hans Leo Hassler, German composer, publishes the large collection Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni in Augsburg
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, publishes a group of Magnificat settings, in Rome
• Luca Marenzio, Italian composer of madrigals, publishes his fifth book of madrigals in Venice
• Giaches de Wert, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes his tenth book of madrigals
• William Byrd, Catholic composer in England, publishes his Cantiones sacrae
• First collection by Giovanni Croce, his Compietta for eight voices

Hans Leo Hassler (baptized August 17, 1562 – June 8, 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. ... Augsburg is a city in south central Germany. ... Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Born in Palestrina (Praeneste) or Rome, 1525, latest February 1, 1526 – February 2, 1594 in Rome) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. ... Magnificat is the Latin name of the canticle of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which she speaks to Elisabeth, the wife of Zechariah. ... Luca Marenzio (1553? - August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. ... A madrigal is a setting for 4–6 voices of a secular text, often in Italian. ... Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ... Giaches de Wert (1535 – May 6, 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer active in Italy. ... In music, the Dutch School refers, somewhat imprecisely, to the style of polyphonic vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. ... William Byrd (1540? – July 4, 1623) was the most celebrated of early English composers. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. ...

Births

• October 6 - Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer, younger daughter of Giulio Caccini and sister of Francesca Caccini
• Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan music theorist, in Candia (Iraklion)

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page Giulio Caccini (c. ... Francesca Caccini (September 18, 1587 – probably 1640) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. ... Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591 – 1655) was an author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist. ... Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... For the village in Corinthia, see Heraklion, Corinthia. ...

Deaths

• January 7 - Jacobus de Kerle, Netherlandish composer, dies in Prague
• July 2 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer, lutenist and music theorist, father of Galileo
• July 18 - Jacobus Gallus (Jakob Handl) - Slovene composer