Publications

• John Bennet
  John Bennet
  John Bennet was a composer of the English madrigal school. His madrigals include All creatures now as well as Weep, O Mine Eyes. The latter is a homage to John Dowland, using part of Dowland's most famous piece, Flow my Tears, also known in its pavane form as Lachrymae Antiquae.- Media :-External...
  
   – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces
• John Farmer
  John Farmer (1570-1605)
  John Farmer was a composer of the English Madrigal School. He was born in England around 1570 but his exact date of birth is not known - posits a date around 1564 to 1565 based on matriculation records. Farmer was under the patronage of Earl of Oxford and dedicated his collection of canons and...
  
   – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices
• Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
  
   – book of masses, published in Nuremberg
  Nuremberg
  Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
  
  
• 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...
  
   – Ninth 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

• March 23 - Thomas Selle
  Thomas Selle
  Thomas Selle was a German baroque composer.- Life :Selle was born in Zörbig but received his first instruction in Leipzig where he was probably a pupil of the Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius. He was cantor in Heide in 1624 and in 1625 in the nearby Wesselburen...
  
  , composer (died 1663)
• October 10 - Étienne Moulinié
  Étienne Moulinié
  Étienne Moulinié was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine , Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the king...
  
  , composer (died 1676)

Deaths

• January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi
  Cristofano Malvezzi
  Cristofano Malvezzi was an Italian organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the city of Florence during a time of transition to the Baroque style....
  
  , organist and composer (born 1547)
• August 22 – 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...
  
  , Italian composer (born c.1553)
• October 16 – Jakob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1540)
• November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, composer (born 1528)