1601 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• November – Paul Peuerl becomes organist at Horn, Austria.
• Claudio Monteverdi is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
• Giovanni Bassano succeeds Girolamo della Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

Classical music

• Ballet du Roy Henry IV
• Adriano Banchieri
  • Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy
  • Virtuoso ridotto, a madrigal comedy
• Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
• Hans Leo Hassler
  • Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, published in Nuremberg
  • Sacri concentus, book 1, published in Augsburg
• Robert Jones – The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani, published in Rome, featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
• Philippe de Monte – last of thirty-four books of madrigals
• Thomas Morley – Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors

Opera

• none listed

Births

• date unknown – Michelangelo Rossi, opera composer (died 1656)
• probable – Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1672)

Deaths

• January 4 – Laura Peverara, singer (born c 1550)
• May 19 – Costanzo Porta, composer (born c 1528)
• November 26 – Benedetto Pallavicino, organist and composer (b. c. 1551)
• date unknown – Girolamo Dalla Casa, composer