Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• MICHELANGELO ROSSI = Italian composer, violinist and organist = [died: 1656]


• probable:
• JACQUES CHAMPION DE CHAMBONNIÈRES = French harpsichordist, dancer and composer = [died: 1672]

Timeline of Musical Events

• November: PAUL PEUERL becomes organist at Horn, Austria.


• undated:
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
• GIOVANNI BASSANO succeeds Girolamo della Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

Classical Music

• MICHAEL PRAETORIUS
• Ballet du Roy
• Henry IV
• ADRIANO BANCHIERI
• Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy
• Virtuoso ridotto, a madrigal comedy
• GIULIO CACCINI
• Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
• HANS LEO HASSLER
• Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
• Sacri concentus, book 1, published in Augsburg
• ROBERT JONES
• The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres
• LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI
• Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani, published in Rome, featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
• PHILIPPE DE MONTE
• last of thirty-four books of madrigals
• THOMAS MORLEY
• Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors