1601 in music

Overview of the events of 1601 in music

List of years in music

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## Events

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* 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

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* 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

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* Ballet du Roy Henry IV[clarification needed]

## Musical theatre

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* Adriano Banchieri – Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy

## Opera

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* none listed

## Births

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

## Deaths

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* 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

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

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