1598 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Thomas Weelkes becomes organist at Winchester College.
• 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 Oñate.

Classical music

• Adriano Banchieri – La pazzia senile, a madrigal comedy
• Michael Cavendish - Ayres in Tabletorie
• Giles Farnaby – Canzonets to Fowre Voyces
• Thomas Weelkes – Balletts And Madrigals to five voyces
• John Wilbye – The First Set Of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices

Births

• April 9 - Johann Crüger, composer of hymns (died 1662)
• date unknown
  • Charles d'Helfer, French baroque composer and maître de musique at Soissons Cathedral (died 1661)
  • Charles Racquet, organist and composer (died 1664)
  • Jan Vencálek, composer for lute and voice (date of death unknown)

Deaths

• April 8 - Ludwig Helmbold, poet of chorales (born 1532)
• May 3 - Anna Guarini, virtuoso singer (born 1563) (murdered by her husband and her brother)
• December – Giovanni Dragoni, composer and maestro di cappella (born c.1540)
• date unknown
  • Adrian Le Roy, French music publisher, lutenist, guitarist, composer and music educator (born c.1520)
  • Christoph Fischer or Vischer, hymnist (born c.1518/1520)
• probable - Simon Bar Jona Madelka, composer