1589 in music
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Events
- November 30 – Luca Marenzio returns to Rome from Florence.
- The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany is celebrated with six staged intermezzi, featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri and Giovanni de' Bardi, which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.
- Tarquinia Molza is dismissed from the court of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with the composer Giaches de Wert.
Publications
- Costanzo Antegnati – Second book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Ippolito Baccusi – Third book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Ludovico Balbi – Musicale essercitio for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of madrigals
- Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones (Motets) for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giulio Belli – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- William Byrd
- Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1, for five voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
- Songs of Sundrie Natures for three, four, five, and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
- Madrigals for six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
- Johannes Eccard – Neue Lieder (New Songs) for four and five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
- Jakob Paix – Thesaurus Motetarum, a collection of keyboard arrangements of motets by various composers (Stuttgart, Bernhart Jobin)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hymni totius anni... for four voices
- Giovanni Maria Papalia – First book of madrigals for five voices (Messina: Fausto Bufalini)
- Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola – Primo libro de madrigali
- Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette
Classical music
- Giulio Caccini – Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna
Births
- bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer (d. 1640)
- date unknown – Giovanni Battista Fontana, violinist and composer (d. 1630)
Deaths
- date unknown – Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde (born c.1510)
- probable
- Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
- Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist (born c.1493/1506)