1597 in music
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Events
- Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Publications
- Thomas Morley – A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
Classical music
- John Dowland – The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes
- Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
- George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
- Orazio Vecchi
- Canzonette a3
- L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
Opera
- Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera
Births
- July 22 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646)
- date unknown
- Andreas Düben, organist and composer (died 1662)
- Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)
Deaths
- January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530)
- June 6 - William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
- October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)