Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Thomas Morley – A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
John Dowland – The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes
Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
Orazio Vecchi
Canzonette a3
L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera
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)
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)
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