Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 March:   KING JOHN IV OF PORTUGAL = composer, patron of music and the arts, and writer on music = [died: 1656]
• 17 November:   FRANCESCO FOGGIA = composer = [died: 1688]
• date unknown:
• DENIS GAULTIER = French lutenist and composer = [died: 1672]
• WILLIAM SMITH = liturgical composer = [died: 1645]
• probable:
• BENEDETTO FERRARI = composer and theorbo player = [died: 1681]

Timeline of Events

• undated:
• ORLANDO GIBBONS becomes a member of the Chapel Royal.
• GIOVANNI ARTUSI attacks the "crudities" and "licence" in the works of Claudio Monteverdi.
• SEBASTIAN AGUILERA DE HEREDIA leaves his post as organist of Huesca Cathedral to become maestro de música at La Seo Cathedral in Saragossa.

Publications

• ASCANIO MAYONE = Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, keyboard music
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = Il quatro libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Ser.mo Sig.r Duca di Mantova (fourth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice

Classical Music

• CARLO GESUALDO
• Sacrarum cantionum liber primus
• TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA
• Officium Defunctorum