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Overview of the events of 1591 in music
Overview of the events of 1591 in music
Events
Alonso Lobo , Spanish composer, is appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral.
Ruggiero Giovannelli , Italian composer and successor to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina at St. Peter's, acquires post at Collegio Germanico in Rome .
Giulio Belli , Italian composer, is appointed maestro di cappella at cathedral in Carpi, Italy.
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino , Italian composer of the Roman School , is appointed maestro di cappella at S Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
John Bull becomes organist for Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal.
Emilio de' Cavalieri serves as a papal spy, engaging in several secret vote-buying missions to Florence .
Publications
Giammateo Asola
Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino )
3 Masses for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
John Baldwin completes My Ladye Nevells Booke , a manuscript anthology of keyboard music by William Byrd
Paolo Bellasio – Madrigals for three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
William Byrd, Catholic composer in England, publishes his Cantiones sacrae , Book 2, for five and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
Giovanni Croce – Compietta for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti ), music for Compline , his first publication
Scipione Dentice – First book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Matteo Cancer)
John Farmer – Divers and sundrie waies of two parts in one (London: Thomas East), a collection of vocal canons
Stefano Felis
Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Scipione Rizzo for Girolamo Scotto)
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletti a5 , published in Venice
Hans Leo Hassler , German composer, publishes the large collection Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni in Augsburg
Luca Marenzio , Italian composer of madrigals , publishes his fifth book of madrigals in Venice
Pietro Paolo Paciotto has his first book of masses published in Venice by Alessandro Gardano
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Italian composer, publishes a group of Magnificat settings, in Rome
Giaches de Wert , Franco-Flemish composer, publishes his tenth book of madrigals
Births
Deaths