1606 in music
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The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 5 - The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.
Publications
- Girolamo Montesardo – Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar
Classical music
- Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio)[1]
- John Cooper – Funeral Teares
Opera
- Andrea Cima – La Gentile
Births
- date unknown
- William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
- Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
- Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)
Deaths
- January 28 - Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
- September 9 - Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
- date unknown
- Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
- Jiří Nigrin, music publisher
- probable - Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)
References
- ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd. edition ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 125. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.