1590 in music
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Overview of the events of 1590 in music
Overview of the events of 1590 in music
October 16 – Carlo Gesualdo , Italian composer of madrigals , murders his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto . Approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi , Monteverdi, Marenzio , Monte and others. The serpent is invented by Canon Edmé Guillaume in Auxerre, France – it was a common instrument in Western European churches for the next several hundred years. Baldassare Donato becomes maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice , taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino . Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer, is engaged as string player at court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua . Emilio de' Cavalieri , Italian composer, produces Tasso's Aminto , likely with his own music, for the Medici , at Carnival in Florence . Giovanni Gabrieli arranges the posthumous publication of works by his uncle Andrea Gabrieli , in Venice. Publications [ edit ] Gregor Aichinger – Sacrae cantiones... (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes some madrigals Blasius Amon – Sacrae cantiones... (Munich: Adam Berg) Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino ) Giammateo Asola – Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats , a Salve Regina , a mass, and five laudi Paolo Bellasio – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Valerio Bona – Litaniae et aliae laudes B. Mariae Virginis (Litanies and other laudas of the Blessed Virgin Mary) for four voices, Simon Tini ed. (Milan: Francesco Tini) Giovanni Croce First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) First book of Mascarate piacevole et ridicolose per il carnevale for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Girolamo Dalla Casa – The second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giovanni Gabrieli publishes works in the cori spezzati style, in Venice. Jacobus Gallus Opus musicum , volume 4 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus) Harmoniarum moralium for four voices, book 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus) Hans Leo Hassler – Canzonette for four voices (Nuremberg : Katharina Gerlach) Paolo Isnardi – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Orlande de Lassus , Franco-Flemish composer – Neue teutsche, unnd etliche frantzösische Gesäng for six voices (Munich : Adam Berg) Cristofano Malvezzi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte Third book of madrigali spirituali for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Fourteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Claudio Monteverdi – Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Ingegneri (Second book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Rome: Giacomo Bericchia for Francesco Coattino) David Palladius Nuptiales cantiones , a book of wedding music, published in Wittenberg by Johann Franck, printed by Matthäus Welack Ein neue Lied dem Hochwirden in Gott... , published in Magdeburg by Johann Franck Andreas Pevernage Second book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin) Third book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin) Orfeo Vecchi – Masses, Sunday Vespers psalms, Magnificat, motets, and polyphonic psalms for eight voices (Milan: Francesco & the heirs of Simon Tini) Orazio Vecchi publishes a book of motets for 10 voices, in Venice. Thomas Watson – The first sett, Of Italian Madrigalls Englished , published in London . Classical music [ edit ] This section is empty. You can help by
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