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Events
Publications
- Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music
Classical music
Births
- January 24 - Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (died 1630)
- July 17 - Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (died 1602)
- August - Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (died 1627)
- August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (died 1633)
- date unknown - Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (died 1631)
- probable
- Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (died 1626)
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest (died 1628), the most published English composer in his time
- Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (died 1596)
Deaths
- February 15 - Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (born c.1500/1510)
- date unknown - Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (born c.1510)
- probable