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- Lutenist and composer Robert JonesRobert Jones (composer)Robert Jones was an English lutenist and composer, the most prolific of the English lute song composers ....
graduates from St Edmund Hall, OxfordSt Edmund Hall, OxfordSt Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Better known within the University by its nickname, "Teddy Hall", the college has a claim to being "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university"...
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Classical music
- John DowlandJohn DowlandJohn Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
– The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes - Giovanni GabrieliGiovanni GabrieliGiovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.-Biography:Gabrieli was born in Venice...
– Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1 - George KirbyeGeorge KirbyeGeorge Kirbye was an English composer of the late Tudor period and early Jacobean era. He was one of the members of the English Madrigal School, but also composed sacred music....
– The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces - Orazio VecchiOrazio VecchiOrazio Vecchi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for his madrigal comedies, particularly L'Amfiparnaso.- Life :...
- CanzonetteCanzonettaIn music, a canzonetta was a popular Italian secular vocal composition which originated around 1560...
a3 - L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
- Canzonette
Births
- July 22 - Virgilio MazzocchiVirgilio MazzocchiVirgilio Mazzocchi was an Italian baroque composer.He was born in Civita Castellana, the younger brother of Domenico Mazzocchi. Like his brother, who shared some features of his career, he was largely a composer of sacred vocal music.Mazzocchi is associated with providing music for the papal chapels...
, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646) - date unknown
- Andreas DübenAndreas DübenAndreas Düben was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. He was born near Leipzig and was admitted to Leipzig University in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck from 1614 until 1620 when he secured a position as organist in the...
, organist and composer (died 1662) - Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)
- Andreas Düben
Deaths
- January 29 – Elias AmmerbachElias AmmerbachElias Nikolaus Ammerbach was a German organist and arranger of organ music of the Renaissance. He published the earliest printed book of organ music in Germany and is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists....
, organist (b. c.1530) - June 6 - William HunnisWilliam HunnisWilliam Hunnis was an English Protestant poet, dramatist, and composer.Hunnis was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal to Edward VI, but was imprisoned during the reign of Mary for plotting against her regime and narrowly escaped execution...
, poet, dramatist, and composer - October 7 – Francesco RovigoFrancesco RovigoFrancesco Rovigo was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance, active in Mantua and Graz.-Life:Nothing is known of his life prior to 1570, when he went to Venice, already 29 or 30 years old, to receive a musical education with the renowned organist and composer Claudio Merulo of...
, organist and composer (b. c.1540)