- Source: 1598 in music
Events
Thomas Weelkes becomes organist at Winchester College.
The "first documented European music education" in the United States begins in a colony in New Mexico, founded by a group of Spanish friars accompanying Juan de Oñate.
Publications
Gregor Aichinger – Tricinia Mariana (Innsbruck: Johannes Agricola), a collection of antiphons, hymns, Magnificats, and litanies for the Office of the Blessed Virgin, for three voices
Felice Anerio – Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giovanni Artusi – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giammateo Asola
Introitus in dominicis diebus totius anni... (Introits for the Sundays of the whole year) for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
In omnibus totius anni solemnitatibus Introitus et Alleluia ad Missalis Romani formam ordinati... (Introits and Alleluias for all the solemnities of the year...) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Completorium romanum primus et secundus chorus (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline, including an Alma Redemptoris Mater and an Ave Regina caelorum
Adriano Banchieri
Psalms for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), includes pieces for Vespers for the entire year
La pazzia senile, second book for three voices (Venice: Ricciardi Amadino), a madrigal comedy
Giovanni Bassano – Motetti per concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni solemnitatibus for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), Psalms for Vespers for the whole year, also includes two Magnificats and a Te Deum
Michael Cavendish – Ayres in Tabletorie
Scipione Dentice – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace)
Johannes Eccard
Epithalamion (Wer rechte Freud wil habn) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Der CXXVIII Psalm, zu hochzeitlichen Ehren (Selig ist der gepreiset) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Braudt Lied (Gott selber hat auss höchstem Rath) for four voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Giles Farnaby – [20] Canzonets to Fowre Voyces with a Song of Eight Parts (London: Peter Short), with a dedicatory poem in Latin by Anthony Holborne
Bartholomäus Gesius – Der Lobgesang Mariae (Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, Herr Gott dich loben wir) und andere geistliche Lieder (Marian hymns) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), also includes a New Year's motet for eight voices
Claude Le Jeune – Dodécacorde (La Rochelle: Hierosme Haultin), a collection of twelve psalms for two, three, four, five, six, and seven voices
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Luca Marenzio – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Claudio Merulo – Toccate d’Intavolatura d’Organo, Book 1 (Rome: Simone Verovio)
Philippe de Monte – Nineteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Peter Philips – Madrigals for eight voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
Orfeo Vecchi
Second book of masses for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
Second book of motets for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
Third book of motets for six voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
Thomas Weelkes – Balletts And Madrigals to five voyces
John Wilbye – The First Set Of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices
Opera
Jacopo Peri (and Jacopo Corsi) – Dafne, the earliest known modern opera
Births
April 9 – Johann Crüger, composer of hymns (died 1662)
date unknown
Charles d'Helfer, French baroque composer and maître de musique at Soissons Cathedral (died 1661)
Charles Racquet, organist and composer (died 1664)
Jan Vencálek, composer for lute and voice (date of death unknown)
Deaths
April 8 – Ludwig Helmbold, poet of chorales (born 1532)
May 3 – Anna Guarini, virtuoso singer (born 1563)
December – Giovanni Dragoni, composer and maestro di cappella (born c.1540)
date unknown
Adrian Le Roy, French music publisher, lutenist, guitarist, composer and music educator (born c.1520)
Christoph Fischer or Vischer, hymnist (born c.1518/1520)
probable – Simon Bar Jona Madelka, composer
Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (born c. 1530)