Music

• Jhan Gero
  Jhan Gero
  Jhan Gero was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, apparently active mainly in Italy, particularly Venice...
  
   – Two books of motets
• Orlando de Lassus – First book of madrigals
  Madrigal (music)
  A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
  
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Theory

• Nicola Vicentino
  Nicola Vicentino
  Nicola Vicentino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard, and devising a practical system of chromatic writing two hundred years before the rise of equal...
  
   – L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica (Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.

Births

• February 25 – Alonso Lobo
  Alonso Lobo
  Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luís de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal....
  
  , Spanish composer (died 1617)
• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi
  Lodovico Zacconi
  Lodovico Zacconi was an Italian-Austrian composer and musical theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras...
  
  , composer and music theorist (died 1627)