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.

Publications

• Gregor Aichinger – Tricinia Mariana (Innsbruck: Johannes Agricola), a collection of antiphons, hymns, Magnificats, and litanies for the Office of the Blessed Virgin, for three voices
• Felice Anerio – Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giovanni Artusi – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Introitus in dominicis diebus totius anni... (Introits for the Sundays of the whole year) for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • In omnibus totius anni solemnitatibus Introitus et Alleluia ad Missalis Romani formam ordinati... (Introits and Alleluias for all the solemnities of the year...) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Completorium romanum primus et secundus chorus (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline, including an Alma Redemptoris Mater and an Ave Regina caelorum
• Adriano Banchieri
  • Psalms for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), includes pieces for Vespers for the entire year
  • La pazzia senile, second book for three voices (Venice: Ricciardi Amadino), a madrigal comedy
• Giovanni Bassano – Motetti per concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni solemnitatibus for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), Psalms for Vespers for the whole year, also includes two Magnificats and a Te Deum
• Michael Cavendish – Ayres in Tabletorie
• Scipione Dentice – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace)
• Johannes Eccard
  • Epithalamion (Wer rechte Freud wil habn) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
  • Der CXXVIII Psalm, zu hochzeitlichen Ehren (Selig ist der gepreiset) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
  • Braudt Lied (Gott selber hat auss höchstem Rath) for four voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• Giles Farnaby – [20] Canzonets to Fowre Voyces with a Song of Eight Parts (London: Peter Short), with a dedicatory poem in Latin by Anthony Holborne
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Der Lobgesang Mariae (Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, Herr Gott dich loben wir) und andere geistliche Lieder (Marian hymns) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), also includes a New Year's motet for eight voices
• Claude Le Jeune – Dodécacorde (La Rochelle: Hierosme Haultin), a collection of twelve psalms for two, three, four, five, six, and seven voices
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Luca Marenzio – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Claudio Merulo – Toccate d’Intavolatura d’Organo, Book 1 (Rome: Simone Verovio)
• Philippe de Monte – Nineteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Peter Philips – Madrigals for eight voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
• Orfeo Vecchi
  • Second book of masses for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
  • Second book of motets for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
  • Third book of motets for six voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
• Thomas Weelkes – Balletts And Madrigals to five voyces
• John Wilbye – The First Set Of English Madrigals To 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices

Opera

• Jacopo Peri (and Jacopo Corsi) – Dafne, the earliest known modern opera

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)
• 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
  • Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (born c. 1530)