1606 in music

none December 2025 1606 music The year 1606 in music involved some significant events. Events January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London. Publications Agostino Agazzari la Sacrae cantiones... liber quartus (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Gregor Aichinger Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius) la Vulnera Christi for three and four voices (Dillingen: Adam Metzler) la Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum (Dillingen: Adam Metzler) Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (London: John Windet) Felice Anerio – la Responsoria (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Bartolomeo Barbarino – it Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a song for two tenors John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices Sethus Calvisius – de Herr Gott wer kan aussgründen for four voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a motet Giovanni Paolo Cima – it Partito de ricercari, & canzoni alla francese (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo) Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Christian Erbach – la Modorum sacrorum tripertitorum, quibus solennium sacrorum per annum initia for five voices, parts 2 & 3 (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer), a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs Giacomo Finetti – la Orationes vespertinae for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Vespers Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Konrad Hagius – la Canticum Virginis intemeratae (ie. Magnificat) for four, five, and six voices (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer) Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri Second book of hymns for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously Claude Le Jeune fr Pseaumes en vers mesurez for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously fr Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde (Eight-line poems on the vanity and inconstancy of the world) for three and four voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously Tiburtio Massaino – la Sacri modulorum concentus for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31 (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile) Claudio Merulo – Second book of it canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously Girolamo Montesardo – it Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar Nicola Parma – Motets for eight and twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Serafino Patta - la Missa, psalmi, motecta ac litaniae in honorem Deiparae Virginis... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo) Classical music Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio),Palisca Claude V. Baroque Music 3rd. Prentice Hall History of Music 1968 1991 Prentice Hall 0-13-058496-7 125 premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices (London: John Windet for William Barley for John Browne), written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire (April 3, 1606). Opera Andrea Cima – La Gentile Births March 13 – Giacinto Anzalone, Italian composer, conductor, and director of the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples.2001 Alexander Silbiger Anzalone [Ansalone, Anzelonus] Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01070 date unknown William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697) Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675) Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656) Deaths January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530) September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553) date unknown Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550) Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530) References Category:1600s in music Category:1606 in the arts Music Category:17th century in music Category:Music by year