1602 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• none listed

Publications

• February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

• Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

• February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
• April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
• probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
• March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
• October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
• November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)