1602 in music
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Events
- none listed
Publications
- February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche [1] (The New Music), published in Florence
Classical music
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass
Opera
- Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)
Births
- February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, composer (died 1676)
- April – William Lawes, composer (died 1645)
Deaths
- March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, composer (born c.1550)
- November 29 – Anthony Holborne, composer (born c1545)
- Date unknown – Thomas Morley, composer, music theorist and publisher (born c1557)
Notes
- ↑ Le nuove musiche was published in 1602 per the Gregorian calendar. Some sources list 1601, based on the Julian calendar, as the publication date.