Events

• July: 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...
  
   is dismissed from his post at the court of Mantua
  Duchy of Mantua
  The Duchy of Mantua was a duchy in Lombardy, Northern Italy, subject to the Holy Roman Empire.-History:After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Mantua was invaded by Byzantines, Longobards and Franks. In the 11th century it became a possession of Boniface of Canossa, marquis of Toscana...
  
   by the new duke Francesco IV Gonzaga
  Francesco IV Gonzaga
  Francesco IV Gonzaga , was Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat between 9 February and 22 December 1612.-Biography:Born in Mantua, he was the eldest son of Duke Vincenzo I and Eleonora de' Medici....
  
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• John Dowland
  John Dowland
  John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
  
   is appointed a lute
  Lute
  Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
  
  nist to King James I of England
  James I of England
  James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
  
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Publications

• Orlando Gibbons
  Orlando Gibbons
  Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
  
  , The First Set Of Madrigals and Motetts of 5. Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces.
• Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
  
  , Sacri concentus Book 2, published in Augsburg
  Augsburg
  Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
  
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Classical music

• Peter Philips
  Peter Philips
  Peter Philips was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders...
  
  , Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus.
• Michael Praetorius
  Michael Praetorius
  Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns, many of which reflect an effort to make better the relationship between...
  
  , Terpsichore
  Terpsichore
  In Greek mythology, Terpsichore "delight of dancing" was one of the nine Muses, ruling over dance and the dramatic chorus. She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance". She is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying the dancers' choirs...
  
  , a set of Renaissance dances.

Deaths

• June 8: Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler
  Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
  
  , German composer (born 1564).
• August 12: 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...
  
  , composer and organist (born c. 1555).
• September: Giovanni de' Bardi
  Giovanni de' Bardi
  Giovanni de' Bardi , Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.- Biography :Giovanni de' Bardi was born in Florence....
  
  , writer and composer (born 1534).
• date unknown: Ercole Bottrigari
  Ercole Bottrigari
  Ercole Bottrigari was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna...
  
  , writer and composer (born 1531).