Events

• Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi
  Luigi Zenobi
  Luigi Zenobi , also known as Luigi del Cornetto, was a virtuoso cornett player. Born in Ancona, Italy, Zenobi moved to Vienna, where he was employed by Maximilian II as the court cornett player. In 1583, he relocated to Ferrara and became the most highly paid musician in the Este Court at the time...
  
   relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly-paid musician at the Este court.

Publications

• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Madrigali spirituali a quattro voci posti in musica da Claudio Monteverde Cremonese, discepolo del Signor Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri – (book of madrigals
  Madrigal (music)
  A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
  
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Births

• September 13 – Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
  
  , Ferrarese
  Ferrara
  Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
  
   keyboardist and composer (died 1643)
• December 25 – Orlando Gibbons
  Orlando Gibbons
  Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
  
  , English composer (died 1625)
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  • Paolo Agostino
    Paolo Agostino
    Paolo Agostino was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses...
    
    , organist and composer (died 1629)
  • Johann Daniel Mylius
    Johann Daniel Mylius
    Johann Daniel Mylius was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy. Born at Wetter in Hesse, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of Johann Hartmann ....
    
    , chemist and composer for the lute (died 1642)
  • Nicolas Vallet
    Nicolas Vallet
    Nicolas Vallet was a Dutch lutenist and composer of French birth.Vallet, a Huguenot, was born at Corbeny, Aisne, but fled from France to the Netherlands for religious reasons...
    
    , lutenist and composer (died c.1642)

Deaths

• date unknown - Sebastian Westcott
  Sebastian Westcott
  Sebastian Westcott was an English organist at St. Paul's Cathedral. He is especially known for staging performances of plays with the Children of Paul's.-Life:...
  
  , organist of St Paul's Cathedral (born c.1524)