Events

• Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
  
   comes to Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
   to study under Giovanni Gabrieli
  Giovanni Gabrieli
  Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.-Biography:Gabrieli was born in Venice...
  
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• The first round
  Round (music)
  A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody , but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different voices, but nevertheless fit harmoniously together...
  
  s in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft
  Thomas Ravenscroft
  Thomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.He probably sang in the choir of St...
  
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Publications

• Ascanio Mayone
  Ascanio Mayone
  Ascanio Mayone was an Neapolitan composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602...
  
   – Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, keyboard music
• Eustache du Caurroy
  Eustache Du Caurroy
  Eustache du Caurroy was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including musique mesurée, and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of...
  
   – Preces ecclesiasticae (Church prayers), two volumes of sacred music.
• 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...
  
   – L'Orfeo (published in Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  ; performed in 1607
  1607 in music
  - Events :*January 6 - Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.*February 24 - Première of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, with libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.*March 1 - Francesco Gonzaga...
  
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• John Wilbye
  John Wilbye
  John Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St...
  
   – The Second Set Of Madrigales To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces.

Deaths

• February 28 – Paul Sartorius
  Paul Sartorius (composer)
  Paul Sartorius was a German composer and organist.-References:...
  
  , composer and organist (born 1569)
• May 15 – Giovanni Croce
  Giovanni Croce
  Giovanni Croce was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School...
  
  , composer (born 1557)
• August 7 – Eustache du Caurroy
  Eustache Du Caurroy
  Eustache du Caurroy was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including musique mesurée, and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of...
  
  , French composer (born 1549)