1596 in music

none December 2025 1596 music Events John Bull is chosen as the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Elizabeth I Publications Agostino Agazzari – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Felice Anerio – First book of la Sacri hymni et cantica (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Ippolito Baccusi la Sacrae cantiones psalmi videlicet, et omnia quae ad completorium pertinent for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) la Missae tres tum viva voce tum omni instrumentorum genere cantatu commodissimae (3 Masses fit for both living voices and instruments of all types) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Adriano Banchieri – Second book of it Canzoni alla francese for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Girolamo Belli – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Giulio Belli – la Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni solemnitatibus for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Psalms for Vespers, also includes two Magnificats Aurelio Bonelli – First book of it villanelle for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Croce Masses for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) it Salmi che si cantano a Terza, con l'inno Te Deum, & i salmi Benedictus e Miserere for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), containing psalms for Terce it Li sette sonetti penitenziali (The seven penitential sonnets) for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), settings of the seven penitential psalms in sonnet form, translated by Giovanni Francesco Bembo Christoph Demantius – Joel, chapter 2 verse 12 for five voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman) Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Johannes Eccard la XX. Odae sacrae: Ludovici Helmboldi (Twenty sacred odes by Ludwig Helmbold) (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard) la Epithalamium de (Wer Gottes Wort mit Fleis betracht) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song la Harmonia musica (Cui virtutis amans) for eight voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song de Hochzeit Lied (Wo fern ein Eh gerathen soll) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song la Harmonia (Casta Leonhardo ...) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song Stefano Felis – Fourth book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Andrea Gabrieli – Third book of it ricercari (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously Jacobus Gallus – la Moralia for five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Alexander Philipp Dieterich), published posthumously Bartholomäus Gesius – la Novae melodiae harmonicis for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann) Carlo Gesualdo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Hans Leo Hassler de Neüe teüsche Gesäng nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten for four, five, six, and eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk) Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Giovanni de Macque – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Johannes Matelart – la Responsoria, antiphoniae et hymni for four and five voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii) Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Peter Philips – First book of madrigals for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse) Orfeo Vecchi – la Psalmi integri in totius anni solemnitatibus (Complete psalms for all the solemnities of the year) (Milan: heirs of Francesco and Simon Tini) Classical music Piero Strozzi – it La mascherata degli accecatiJuly 2017 Births September 3 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese luthier (died 1684) September 4 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch composer and poet (died 1687) Deaths February 29 – Philippe Rogier, composer (born 1561) May 6 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giaches-de-Wert Giaches de Wert Encyclopædia Britannica 10 December 2025 December 27 – Pietro Pontio, composer (born 1532) References Category:1590s in music Category:1596 in the arts Music Category:16th century in music Category:Music by year