Births

• October 18? – Luca Marenzio
  Luca Marenzio
  Luca Marenzio was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi...
  
   (c.1553), Italian composer (d. 1599
  1599 in music
  - Publications :*John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces*John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices*Hans Leo Hassler – book of masses, published in Nuremberg*Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals a5- Births :...
  
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• probable – Leonhard Lechner
  Leonhard Lechner
  Leonard Lechner was a German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus.-Life:Lechner's exact place of birth is unknown. The by-name he occasionally used, "Athesinus", refers to origins in the Adige Valley in what is now the Italian province of South Tyrol....
  
  , German composer (died 1606)