1591 in music explained
Events
- Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer, is appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral.
- Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and successor to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina at St. Peter's, acquires post at Collegio Germanico in Rome.
- Giulio Belli, Italian composer, is appointed maestro di cappella at cathedral in Carpi, Italy.
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, Italian composer of the Roman School, is appointed maestro di cappella at S Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
- John Bull becomes organist for Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal.
- Emilio de' Cavalieri serves as a papal spy, engaging in several secret vote-buying missions to Florence.
Publications
- Giammateo Asola
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- 3 Masses for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- John Baldwin completes My Ladye Nevells Booke, a manuscript anthology of keyboard music by William Byrd
- Paolo Bellasio – Madrigals for three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- William Byrd, Catholic composer in England, publishes his Latin: Cantiones sacrae, Book 2, for five and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
- Giovanni Croce – Italian: Compietta for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), music for Compline, his first publication
- Scipione Dentice – First book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Matteo Cancer)
- John Farmer – Divers and sundrie waies of two parts in one (London: Thomas East), a collection of vocal canons
- Stefano Felis
- Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Scipione Rizzo for Girolamo Scotto)
- Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletti a5, published in Venice
- Gioseffo Guami – Fourth book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer
- Latin: Compendium musicae (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a music theory textbook in Latin and German
- German: Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder for three voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
- Hans Leo Hassler – Latin: Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a large collection of motets
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Luca Marenzio – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte – Sixth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Johannes Nucius – Latin: Modulationes sacrae modis musicis for five and six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- Pietro Paolo Paciotto has his first book of masses published in Venice by Alessandro Gardano
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, publishes a group of Magnificat settings, in Rome
- Andreas Pevernage – Fourth book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: widow of Plantin & Jean Mourentorf)
- Giaches de Wert, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes his tenth book of madrigals
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