1601 in music

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Events

November – Paul Peuerl becomes organist at Horn, Austria.
Claudio Monteverdi is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
Giovanni Bassano succeeds Girolamo Dalla Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

Publications

Gregor Aichinger – Odaria lectissima ex melitiss. D. Bernardi jubilo delibata... (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), a collection of sacred songs for three and four voices
Adriano Banchieri – Il Metamorfosi musicale, fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Valerio Bona
- Second book of masses and motets for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- First book of madrigals and canzonas for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Joachim Burmeister – Geistlicher Psalmen D. M. L. und anderer gottseligen Menner for four voices (Rostock: Stephan Myliander)
Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche ^[1] (The New Music) (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
Giovanni Croce
- Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Christoph Demantius – 77 neue außerlesene, liebliche, zierliche, polnischer und teutscher Art, Täntze mit und ohne Texten for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Baur)
Johannes Eccard – Braut Lied (Ein treu Gemahl) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Melchior Franck – First book of sacrae melodiae for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Augsburg: Schönigian)
Andrea Gabrieli – Mascherate for three, four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes pieces by Ippolito Chamaterò, Orazio Vecchi, and Geminiano Capilupi
Bartholomäus Gesius – Geistliche Deutsche Lieder (Sacred German Songs) for four and five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann Hartmann)
Gioseffo Guami – Partitura per sonare delle canzonette alla francese (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Adam Gumpelzhaimer – Sacrorum concentuum, book one, for eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
Hans Leo Hassler
- Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann)
- Sacri concentus, book 1 (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
Jakob Hassler – Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), also includes a mass and a setting of Psalm 51
Joachim van den Hove – Florida (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen)
Robert Jones – The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres
Claude Le Jeune – The 150 Psalms for four and five voices (Paris: the widow of R. Ballard and his son Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani (Rome: Simone Verovio), featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Simone Molinaro – Second book of motets for eight voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
Philippe de Monte – last of thirty-four books of madrigals
Thomas Morley (ed.) – Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors
Asprilio Pacelli – Madrigali... libro primo, a quattro voci (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
Pietro Paolo Paciotto – Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum..., book 1 (Rome, Nicolo Mutii)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Twelfth book of masses, published posthumously
Orfeo Vecchi
- The seven penitential psalms for six voices (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
- Psalmi in totius anni solemnitatibus (Psalms for the solemnities of the whole year) (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)

Classical music

Ballet du Roy Henry IV^{[clarification needed]}

Musical theatre

Adriano Banchieri – Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy

Opera

none listed

Births

date unknown – Michelangelo Rossi, opera composer (died 1656)
probable – Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1672)

Deaths

January 4 – Laura Peverara, singer (born c 1550)
May 19 – Costanzo Porta, composer (born c 1528)
November 26 – Benedetto Pallavicino, organist and composer (b. c. 1551)
date unknown – Girolamo Dalla Casa, composer

Notes

^ Le nuove musiche was published in 1601 per the Julian calendar. Some sources list 1602 as the publication date.

[1] Le nuove musiche was published in 1601 per the Julian calendar. Some sources list 1602 as the publication date.

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