1590 in music
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See also: 1589 in music, other events of 1590, 1591 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, Marenzio, Monte and others
- Baldassare Donato becomes maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice, taking over on the death of Gioseffo Zarlino
- October 16 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer of madrigals, murders his wife and her lover
- Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer, acquires his post at Mantua
- Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer, produces Tasso's Aminto, likely with his own music, for the Medici, at Carnival in Florence
Publications
- Orlande de Lassus, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes Neue teutsche, unnd etliche frantzösische Gesäng, a collection of secular songs for six voices, in Munich
- Claudio Monteverdi publishes his second book of madrigals, in Venice
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his fifth book of masses, in Rome
- Orazio Vecchi publishes a book of motets for 10 voices, in Venice
- Giovanni Gabrieli publishes works in the cori spezzati style, in Venice
- Andrea Gabrieli publishes works posthumously, in Venice, under the direction of his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli
Births
Deaths
- Maddalena Casulana, Italian composer
- February 4 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer, maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice
- September 20 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer
