1597 in music

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Events

• Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Publications

• Thomas Morley – A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

Classical music

• John Dowland – The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
• George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
• Orazio Vecchi
  • Canzonette a3
  • L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy

Opera

• Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera

Births

• July 22 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646)
• date unknown
  • Andreas Düben, organist and composer (died 1662)
  • Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)

Deaths

• January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530)
• June 6 - William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
• October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)