Events

• Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Publications

• Thomas Morley A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

Classical music

• John Dowland The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes
• Giovanni Gabrieli Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
• George Kirbye The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
• Orazio Vecchi
  • Canzonette a3
  • L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy

Opera

• Jacopo Peri Dafne, the earliest known opera

Births

• July 22 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646)
• date unknown
  • Andreas D ben, organist and composer (died 1662)
  • Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)

Deaths

• January 29 Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530)
• June 6 - William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
• October 7 Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)

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