1594 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Thomas Ravenscroft joins the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
• Alfonso Fontanelli and Carlo Gesualdo visit Venice, Florence, Naples, and Venosa.
• Sethus Calvisius becomes Thomaskantor in Leipzig.

Publications

• Ippolito Baccusi
  • Psalmi omnes qui in vesperis a Romana Ecclesia decantantur for four voices, books 2 & 3 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
  • First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones cum B. V. cantico (Motets and a Magnificat) for ten voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a mass for eight voices
• Valerio Bona – Masses and motets for three voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini), also includes a Magnificat for six voices
• Sethus Calvisius – Hymni sacri latini et germanici (Sacred hymns in Latin and German) for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
• Giovanni Croce
  • First book of motets for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Novi pensieri musicali (New musical thoughts) for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Christoph Demantius – Epithalamium honori nuptiarum Dn. Andreae Goldbeckii cum foemina Anna Christophori Reichij relicta vidua (Leipzig: Zacharias Berwald), a wedding song
• Scipione Dentice – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
• Giovanni Dragoni – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Johannes Eccard
  • Epithalamion (Was Gott für hat) for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a wedding song
  • Dilexi sapientiam for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a graduation song
• Carlo Gesualdo – Madrigali libro secundo
• Thomas Morley – Madrigalls To Foure Voyces ... The First Booke
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • Sixth book of masses
  • Seventh book of masses
• Andreas Raselius – Teutscher Sprüche auss den sontäglichen Evangeliis durchs gantze Jar, first Evangelienmotetten cycle covering the whole year to be written in the German language

Classical music

• Orlande de Lassus – Lagrime di San Pietro

Births

• February 5 – Biagio Marini, violinist and composer (d. 1663)
• September 13 – Francesco Manelli, Italian composer and theorbist (died 1667)

Deaths

• February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born c.1525)
• June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532)
• July – Girolamo Mei, humanist and inspiration of the Florentine Camerata (b. 1519)
• July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, organist and composer (b. 1554)