1602 in music
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Events
- Asprilio Pacelli is appointed maestro di capella of St Peter's Basilica
Publications
- February â Giulio Caccini â Le nuove musiche [1] (The New Music), published in Florence
- Agostino Agazzari â Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
- Gregor Aichinger â Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of Jacobus Pontanus, for three voices
- Felice Anerio
- Giammateo Asola
- Psalmi ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
- Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Ippolito Baccusi â Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Giovanni Bassano â First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Lodovico Bellanda â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Aurelio Bonelli â First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Christoph Demantius â Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
- Scipione Dentice â Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
- Stefano Felis â Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Melchior Franck
- Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
- Farrago for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
- Contrapuncti composti for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
- Marco da Gagliano â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Bartholomäus Gesius â Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preià der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
- Pierre Guédron â Airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
- Claude Le Jeune â First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
- Alonso Lobo â First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
- Duarte Lobo â Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
- Tomaso Pecci â Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
- Andreas Pevernage â Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Costanzo Porta â Hymnodia sacra for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
- Hieronymus Praetorius â Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
- Orfeo Vecchi
- Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
- La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana â Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass
Opera
- Giulio Caccini â Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)
Births
- February 14 â Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)[2]
- April â William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
- probable â Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)
Deaths
- January 6 â Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
- March 11 â Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
- October â Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
- November 29 â Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)
