Publications

• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo – (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

• February 26 (baptized) - Stefano Landi
  Stefano Landi
  Stefano Landi was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio .-Biography:Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States.In 1595 he joined the Collegio...
  
  , composer and teacher (died 1639)
• November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt
  Samuel Scheidt
  Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.-Biography:...
  
  , German composer (died 1654)
• date unknown - Francesco Lambardi
  Francesco Lambardi
  Francesco Lambardi was a Neapolitan baroque composer who participated in the staging of feste a ballo with Giovanni Maria Trabaci. He was born in Naples.-References:...
  
  , composer (died 1642)

Deaths

• February 9 - Vincenzo Ruffo
  Vincenzo Ruffo
  Vincenzo Ruffo was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers most responsive to the musical reforms suggested by the Council of Trent, especially in his composition of masses, and as such was an influential member of the Counter-Reformation.Vincenzo Ruffo was born at...
  
  , composer (born 1508)
• August 27 – Vincenzo Bellavere
  Vincenzo Bellavere
  Vincenzo Bellavere was an Italian composer of the Venetian School...
  
  , Italian composer (born c.1540/1541)