1598 in music
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- Thomas WeelkesThomas WeelkesThomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.-Life:Weelkes was baptised in the little village church of Elsted in Sussex on 25...
becomes organist at Winchester CollegeWinchester CollegeWinchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...
. - The "first documented European music education" in the United States begins in a colony in New Mexico, founded by a group of Spanish friars accompanying Juan de OñateJuan de OñateDon Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor of the New Spain province of New Mexico, and founder of various settlements in the present day Southwest of the United States.-Biography:...
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Classical music
- Adriano BanchieriAdriano BanchieriAdriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.-Biography:...
– La pazzia senile, a madrigal comedy - Michael CavendishMichael CavendishMichael Cavendish was an English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.A grandson of Bess of Hardwick and first cousin to Arabella Stuart, he spent much time at court and was for a time composer to the future King Charles I of England. In 1598 he published a set of songs with lute...
- Ayres in Tabletorie - Giles FarnabyGiles FarnabyGiles Farnaby was an English composer and virginalist of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.-Life:Giles Farnaby was born about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall, England or near London. His father, Thomas, was a Cittizen and Joyner of London, and Giles may have been related to Thomas Farnaby , the...
– Canzonets to Fowre Voyces - Thomas WeelkesThomas WeelkesThomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.-Life:Weelkes was baptised in the little village church of Elsted in Sussex on 25...
– Balletts And Madrigals to five voyces - John WilbyeJohn WilbyeJohn Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St...
– The First Set Of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices
Births
- April 9 - Johann CrügerJohann CrügerJohann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns.Crüger was born in Groß Breesen as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received his first musical training from Paulus...
, composer of hymns (died 1662) - date unknown – Charles RacquetCharles RacquetCharles Racquet was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 1618. He held the post until shortly before his death and was succeeded...
, organist and composer (died 1664)
Deaths
- April 8 - Ludwig HelmboldLudwig HelmboldLudwig Helmbold was a poet of Lutheran chorales.- Biography :Helmbold was born in Mühlhausen. He became a professor of Philosophy an der Erfurt University in 1554...
, poet of chorales (b. 1532) - May 3 - Anna GuariniAnna GuariniAnna Guarini, Contessa Trotti, was an Italian virtuoso singer of the late Renaissance. She was one of the most renowned singers of the age, and was one of the four concerto di donne at the Ferrara court of the d'Este family, for whom many composers wrote in a progressive style.- Life and murder...
, virtuoso singer (b. 1563) (murdered by her husband and her brother) - December – Giovanni DragoniGiovanni DragoniGiovanni Andrea Dragoni was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the late Renaissance, a student of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and a prominent composer and maestro di cappella in Rome in the late 16th century...
, composer and maestro di cappella (b. c. 1540) - date unknown – Christoph Fischer or Vischer, hymnist (b. c. 1518/1520)
- probable - Simon Bar Jona MadelkaSimon Bar Jona MadelkaSimon Bar Jona Madelka was a Czech composer. In addition to being a composer, he was also a respectable member of the butcher's guild in the city of Plzeň...
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