Publications

• Cesare Bendinelli
  Cesare Bendinelli
  Cesare Bendinelli was an Italian trumpeter who was the principal trumpet player of the Viennese court from 1567 to 1580. From 1580 till his death he played for the court of Munich....
  
   – Tutta L'Arte della Trombetta, a collection of lessons for the trumpet.
• Thomas Ravenscroft
  Thomas Ravenscroft
  Thomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.He probably sang in the choir of St...
  
   – A Briefe Discourse of the True (but Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees...

Classical music

• Giulio Caccini
  Giulio Caccini
  Giulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...
  
   – Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle, con due arie particolari per tenore, che ricerchi le corde del basso (Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
  
  : Z. Pignoni)
• Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
  
   – Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con uno dialogo a sette, con il suo basso continuo per poterli concertare nel clavacembano, et altri stromenti. Di Claudio Monteverde Maestro di Cappella della Sereniss. Sig. di Venetia in S. Marco (sixth 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....
  
   a5), published in Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
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• Michael Praetorius
  Michael Praetorius
  Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns, many of which reflect an effort to make better the relationship between...
  
   – Syntagma musicum, part 1.

Births

• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste de Boësset, composer (died 1685)
  • Franz Tunder
    Franz Tunder
    Franz Tunder was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style which culminated in the music of J.S...
    
    , German organist and composer (died 1667)

Deaths

• September – Giovanni de Macque
  Giovanni de Macque
  Giovanni de Macque was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy...
  
  , composer (born c. 1550)
• September 26 (or 27) – Felice Anerio
  Felice Anerio
  Felice Anerio was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.-Life:Anerio was born in Rome and...
  
  , composer (born 1560)