1594 in music

== Events == Thomas Ravenscroft joins the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London. Alfonso Fontanelli and Carlo Gesualdo visit Venice, Florence, Naples, and Venosa. Sethus Calvisius becomes Thomaskantor in Leipzig. == Publications == Ippolito Baccusi Psalmi omnes qui in vesperis a Romana Ecclesia decantantur for four voices, books 2 & 3 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones cum B. V. cantico (Motets and a Magnificat) for ten voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a mass for eight voices Valerio Bona – Masses and motets for three voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini), also includes a Magnificat for six voices Sethus Calvisius – Hymni sacri latini et germanici (Sacred hymns in Latin and German) for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann) Giovanni Croce First book of motets for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Novi pensieri musicali (New musical thoughts) for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Christoph Demantius – Epithalamium honori nuptiarum Dn. Andreae Goldbeckii cum foemina Anna Christophori Reichij relicta vidua (Leipzig: Zacharias Berwald), a wedding song Scipione Dentice – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) Giovanni Dragoni – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Johannes Eccard Epithalamion (Was Gott für hat) for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a wedding song Dilexi sapientiam for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a graduation song Carlo Gesualdo First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Second book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Adam Gumpelzhaimer – Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder (New German Sacred Songs) for four voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) Johannes Herold – Historia, deß Leidens unnd Sterbens unsers Herrn und Haylandts Jesu Christu auß dem H. Euangelisten Mattheo for six voices (Grätz: Georg Widmanstetter) Paolo Isnardi – Missa cum motteto for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Orlande de Lassus – Motets for six voices (Graz: Georg Widmanstetter) Claude Le Jeune – Airs for four and five voices (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and the widow of R. Ballard) Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Luca Marenzio – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Tiburtio Massaino – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Rinaldo del Mel Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Third book of madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Claudio Merulo – Sacrorum concentuum, book one for eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte – Eighth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Thomas Morley – Madrigalls To Foure Voyces ... The First Booke (London: Thomas Este) John Mundy – Songs and psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London: Thomas Este) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Sixth book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) Seventh book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino) Andreas Raselius – Teutscher Sprüche auss den sontäglichen Evangeliis durchs gantze Jar, first Evangelienmotetten cycle covering the whole year to be written in the German language == Classical music == Orlande de Lassus – Lagrime di San Pietro == Births == February 5 – Biagio Marini, violinist and composer (d. 1663) September 13 – Francesco Manelli, Italian composer and theorbist (died 1667) == Deaths == February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born c.1525) June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532) July – Girolamo Mei, humanist and inspiration of the Florentine Camerata (b. 1519) July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, organist and composer (b. 1554) == References ==