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1591 in music

Last updated December 08, 2025

Events

Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer, is appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral.
Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and successor to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina at St. Peter's, acquires post at Collegio Germanico in Rome.
Giulio Belli, Italian composer, is appointed maestro di cappella at cathedral in Carpi, Italy.
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, Italian composer of the Roman School, is appointed maestro di cappella at S Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
John Bull becomes organist for Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal.
Emilio de' Cavalieri serves as a papal spy, engaging in several secret vote-buying missions to Florence.

Publications

Giammateo Asola
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- 3 Masses for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
John Baldwin completes My Ladye Nevells Booke , a manuscript anthology of keyboard music by William Byrd
Paolo Bellasio – Madrigals for three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
William Byrd, Catholic composer in England, publishes his Cantiones sacrae, Book 2, for five and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
Giovanni Croce – Compietta for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), music for Compline, his first publication
Scipione Dentice – First book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Matteo Cancer)
John Farmer – Divers and sundrie waies of two parts in one (London: Thomas East), a collection of vocal canons
Stefano Felis
- Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Scipione Rizzo for Girolamo Scotto)
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Balletti a5, published in Venice
Gioseffo Guami – Fourth book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Adam Gumpelzhaimer
- Compendium musicae (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a music theory textbook in Latin and German
- Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder for three voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
Hans Leo Hassler – Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk), a large collection of motets
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Luca Marenzio – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte – Sixth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Johannes Nucius – Modulationes sacrae modis musicis for five and six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
Pietro Paolo Paciotto has his first book of masses published in Venice by Alessandro Gardano
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, publishes a group of Magnificat settings, in Rome
Andreas Pevernage – Fourth book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: widow of Plantin & Jean Mourentorf)
Giaches de Wert, Franco-Flemish composer, publishes his tenth book of madrigals

Births

October 6 – Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer, younger daughter of Giulio Caccini and sister of Francesca Caccini (died 1638)
date unknown
- Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan music theorist, in Candia (Iraklion) (died 1655)
- Robert Dowland, lutenist and composer (died 1641)

Deaths

January 7 – Jacobus de Kerle, Netherlandish composer
February 10 – Ambrose Lupo, court musician and composer to Tudor monarchs (date of birth unknown)
May 23 – John Blitheman, organist and composer (born 1525)
July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer, lutenist and music theorist, father of Galileo (born 1520)
July 18 – Jacobus Gallus (Jakob Handl), Slovene composer (born 1550)
July 30 – Andreas Pevernage, Flemish composer (born 1542/43)
date unknown
- Joan Brudieu, composer (born 1520)
- William Mundy, composer of sacred music (born 1529)

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