Events

• April 28 – Sebastian Raval
  Sebastian Raval
  Sebastián Raval was a Spanish composer of vocal and instrumental music. Born in Cartagena, he served as a soldier of the Army of Flanders in Flanders and Sicily. He joined the order of St...
  
   is appointed maestro di cappella at the viceregal chapel in Palermo
  Palermo
  Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
  
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Publications

• Giovanni Croce
  Giovanni Croce
  Giovanni Croce was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School...
  
   – Triaca musicale (Musical treacle)
• Carlo Gesualdo
  Carlo Gesualdo
  Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo di Venosa or Gesualdo da Venosa , Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer, and murderer....
  
   – Third book of madrigal
  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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• 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...
  
   – Seventh book of madrigals a5
• Thomas Morley
  Thomas Morley
  Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and an organist at St Paul's Cathedral...
  
   – The First Booke of Balletts To Five Voyces
• Sebastian Raval
  Sebastian Raval
  Sebastián Raval was a Spanish composer of vocal and instrumental music. Born in Cartagena, he served as a soldier of the Army of Flanders in Flanders and Sicily. He joined the order of St...
  
   – Madrigals for 3, 5, & 8 voices

Births

• January 26 - Antonio Maria Abbatini
  Antonio Maria Abbatini
  Antonio Maria Abbatini was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome.Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 to 1646, 1649...
  
  , composer (died c.1679)
• April 5 - John Wilson
  John Wilson (composer)
  John Wilson , was an English composer, lutenist and teacher. Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist. He received the degree of D.Mus from Oxford in 1644,...
  
  , composer (died 1674)
• December 2 - Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...
  
  , musician and composer (died 1662)
• probable – Giovanni Battista Buonamente
  Giovanni Battista Buonamente
  Giovanni Battista Buonamente was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until c. 1622, and from c. 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. Notably, in 1627 he played for the coronation festivities...
  
  , Italian violinist and composer (died 1642)

Deaths

• April - Annibale Stabile
  Annibale Stabile
  Annibale Stabile was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composition, and probably was a pupil of Palestrina. He was active mainly at Rome but moved briefly to Kraków, Poland at the end of his life.-Life:Records of his early life are inexact, but he was...
  
  , composer (born c.1535)
• July 23 - Thoinot Arbeau
  Thoinot Arbeau
  Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot . Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance...
  
  , cleric best known for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance (born 1519)