1595 in music

Events

• April 28 – Sebastian Raval is appointed maestro di cappella at the viceregal chapel in Palermo.

Publications

• Giovanni Croce – Triaca musicale (Musical treacle)
• Carlo Gesualdo – Third book of madrigal a5
• Luca Marenzio – Seventh book of madrigals a5
• Thomas Morley – The First Booke of Balletts To Five Voyces (including "Now Is the Month of Maying")
• Sebastian Raval – Madrigals for 3, 5, & 8 voices

Births

• January 26 – Antonio Maria Abbatini, composer (died c.1679)
• April 5 – John Wilson, composer (died 1674)
• December 2 – Henry Lawes, musician and composer (died 1662)
• probable – Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Italian violinist and composer (died 1642)
• probable – Francisca Duarte, Portuguese singer (died 1640)

Deaths

• April – Annibale Stabile, composer (born c.1535)
• July 23 – Thoinot Arbeau, cleric best known for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance (born 1519)