Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• date unknown:
• ALBERICH MAZAK = Czech-Austrian composer = [died: 1661]

Timeline of Events

• 12 October: A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London). The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage THOMAS RAVENSCROFT. This collection follows his publication of the first rounds in English, Pammelia.
• HEINRICH SCHÜTZ comes to Venice to study under GIOVANNI GABRIELI.
• FRANCIS TREGIAN the Younger is imprisoned in England, partly for his Catholic sympathies, and perhaps begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Publications

• EUSTACHE DU CAURROY = Preces ecclesiasticae (Church prayers), two volumes of sacred music
• ASCANIO MAYONE = Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, keyboard music
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = L'Orfeo (published in Venice; performed in 1607).
• JOHN WILBYE = The Second Set Of Madrigales To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces
• Il primo libro de madrigali for five voices and continuo, by members of the Nantermi family

Popular Music

• THOMAS RAVENSCROFT
• Pammelia
• Deuteromelia

Classical Music

• LODOVICO GROSSI DA VIADANA
• Cento concerti ecclesiastici