November – Paul Peuerl becomes organist at Horn, Austria.
Claudio Monteverdi is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
Giovanni Bassano succeeds Girolamo della Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.
Ballet du Roy Henry IV
Adriano Banchieri
Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy
Virtuoso ridotto, a madrigal comedy
Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
Hans Leo Hassler
Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
Sacri concentus, book 1, published in Augsburg
Robert Jones – The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani, published in Rome, featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
Philippe de Monte – last of thirty-four books of madrigals
Thomas Morley – Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors
none listed
date unknown – Michelangelo Rossi, opera composer (died 1656)
probable – Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1672)
January 4 – Laura Peverara, singer (born c 1550)
May 19 – Costanzo Porta, composer (born c 1528)
November 26 – Benedetto Pallavicino, organist and composer (b. c. 1551)
date unknown – Girolamo Dalla Casa, composer
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