1601 in music
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The following events took place in the year 1601 in the world of music.
Events
- November â Paul Peuerl becomes organist at Horn, Austria.
- Claudio Monteverdi is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
- Giovanni Bassano succeeds Girolamo Dalla Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.
- English composer and organist Thomas Hunt supplicates for degree of MusB at University of Cambridge.[1]
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger â Odaria lectissima ex melitiss. D. Bernardi jubilo delibata... (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), a collection of sacred songs for three and four voices
- Adriano Banchieri â Il Metamorfosi musicale, fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Valerio Bona
- Second book of masses and motets for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- First book of madrigals and canzonas for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Joachim Burmeister â Geistlicher Psalmen D. M. L. und anderer gottseligen Menner for four voices (Rostock: Stephan Myliander)
- Giulio Caccini â Le nuove musiche [2] (The New Music) (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
- Giovanni Croce
- Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Christoph Demantius â 77 neue auÃerlesene, liebliche, zierliche, polnischer und teutscher Art, Täntze mit und ohne Texten for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Baur)
- Johannes Eccard â Braut Lied (Ein treu Gemahl) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Melchior Franck â First book of sacrae melodiae for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Augsburg: Schönigian)
- Andrea Gabrieli â Mascherate for three, four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes pieces by Ippolito Chamaterò, Orazio Vecchi, and Geminiano Capilupi
- Bartholomäus Gesius â Geistliche Deutsche Lieder (Sacred German Songs) for four and five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann Hartmann)
- Gioseffo Guami â Partitura per sonare delle canzonette alla francese (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer â Sacrorum concentuum, book one, for eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
- Hans Leo Hassler
- Jakob Hassler â Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), also includes a mass and a setting of Psalm 51
- Joachim van den Hove â Florida (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen)
- Claude Le Jeune â The 150 Psalms for four and five voices (Paris: the widow of R. Ballard and his son Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi â Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani (Rome: Simone Verovio), featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
- Tiburtio Massaino â Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Simone Molinaro â Second book of motets for eight voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
- Philippe de Monte â last of thirty-four books of madrigals
- Thomas Morley (ed.) â Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors
- Asprilio Pacelli â Madrigali... libro primo, a quattro voci (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
- Pietro Paolo Paciotto â Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum..., book 1 (Rome, Nicolo Mutii)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Twelfth book of masses, published posthumously
- Orfeo Vecchi
- The seven penitential psalms for six voices (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
- Psalmi in totius anni solemnitatibus (Psalms for the solemnities of the whole year) (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
Classical music
- Ballet du Roy Henry IV[clarification needed]
Musical theatre
- Adriano Banchieri â Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy
Opera
- none listed
Births
- date unknown â Michelangelo Rossi, opera composer (died 1656)
- probable â Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1672)
Deaths
- January 4 â Laura Peverara, singer (born c 1550)
- May 19 â Costanzo Porta, composer (born c 1528)
- November 26 â Benedetto Pallavicino, organist and composer (b. c. 1551)
- date unknown â Girolamo Dalla Casa, composer