November 30 - Luca Marenzio returns to Rome from Florence.
The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany is celebrated with six staged intermezzi, featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri and Giovanni de' Bardi, which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.
Tarquinia Molza is dismissed from the court of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with the composer Giaches de Wert.
William Byrd
Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1
Songs of Sundrie Natures
Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola - Primo libro de madrigali
Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette
Giulio Caccini – Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna
bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer (d. 1640)
date unknown - Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde (born c.1510)
probable
Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist (born c.1493/1506)
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