Publications

• Giovanni Bassano
  Giovanni Bassano
  Giovanni Bassano was an Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key figure in the development of the instrumental ensemble at St. Mark's basilica, and left a detailed book on instrumental ornamentation, which is a rich resource for...
  
   – Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie, a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.

Births

• October 8 (JC
  Julian calendar
  The Julian calendar began in 45 BC as a reform of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar. It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year .The Julian calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months...
  
  ) – Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
  
  , German composer (died 1672)
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  • Johann Grabbe
    Johann Grabbe
    Johann Gottlieb Grabbe was a German composer.A child prodigy, he became a member of the Bückeburg Court choir at 11, learned the organ from Conradus, succeeded him as organist, and was then, like Heinrich Schütz awarded a scholarship to study with Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice...
    
    , composer (died 1655)
  • Wojciech Dębołęcki, Franciscan monk, writer and composer (died 1646)
• probable - Domenico Allegri
  Domenico Allegri
  Domenico Allegri was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Roma with his family, and a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri...
  
  , singer and composer (died 1629)

Deaths

• August 30 - Andrea Gabrieli
  Andrea Gabrieli
  Andrea Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat more famous Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers, and was extremely influential in spreading the Venetian style in Italy as...
  
  , organist and composer (born c.1532)
• November 23 - Thomas Tallis
  Thomas Tallis
  Thomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...
  
  , church musician and composer (born 1505)
• November 28 - Hernando Franco
  Hernando Franco
  Hernando Franco was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico.- Life :Franco was born in Galizuela in Extremadura, a source region for many people who came to the New World in the 16th century...
  
  , composer (born 1532)