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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 ]
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(July 2017 )