1599 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Claudio Monteverdi marries court singer Claudia Cattaneo,
• Gregor Aichinger begins a two-year sojourn in Rome.

Publications

Luca Marenzio

• Richard Allison – The psalmes of David in meter
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Nova omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia (New Vespers psalms for all solemnities) for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Secundi chori vespertinae omnium solemnitatum psalmodiae for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Adriano Banchieri – Messa solenne for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Bassano – Second book of Concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Lodovico Bellanda – Canzonette spirituali for two, three, and four voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne & Scipione Vargnano)
• Giulio Belli – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces
• Valerio Bona – Fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
• Joachim a Burck – Quadraginta Odae catecheticae in laudem Dei, et piae iuventutis usum (Forty catechetical odes in praise of God for use by pious youth) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold
• Giovanni Paolo Cima – First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
• Giovanni Croce – Masses for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Baldassare Donato – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Johannes Eccard – Hochzeit Liedt (Gleichwie ein Schütz) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• Thomas Elsbeth
  • Neue Ausserlesene Weltliche Lieder (Exceptional New Secular Songs) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
  • Neue geistliche, zu Christlicher Andacht bewegende Lieder (New Spiritual Songs that Evoke Christian Devotion) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
• John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices (London: William Barley for Thomas Morley)
• Hans Leo Hassler – book of masses, published in Nuremberg
• Anthony Holborne – Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs, both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, or other Musicall Winde Instruments, published in London
• Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices
• Asprilio Pacelli – Chorici psalmi et mocteta quatuor vocum, liber primus (Rome: Nicolo Mutii)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
  • Eighth book of masses
  • Ninth book of masses
• Tomaso Pecci – Canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains fifteen pieces by Pecci and fifteen by Mariano Tantucci
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – Thesoro amoroso, first book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)

Sacred music

• Philipp Nicolai
  • "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
  • "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"

Opera

• None recorded

Births

• March 23 – Thomas Selle, composer (died 1663)
• October 10 – Étienne Moulinié, composer (died 1676)

Deaths

• January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer (born 1547)
• August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born c.1553)
• October 16 – Jakob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1540)
• November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, composer (born 1528)