1592 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• November 13 – Lodovico Bassano marries Elizabeth Damon[1]

Publications

• Costanzo Antegnati – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Cantus firmus masses for organ and choir (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Sacra, omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia for five voices (Venice:Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
• Paolo Bellasio – Villanellas for three voices, with lute tablature (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Valerio Bona – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Croce – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Thomas East (ed.) – The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London: Thomas East), contains new settings by English composers, including Edward Blancks, Edmund Hooper, and John Dowland
• Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (third book of madrigals for five voices), published in Venice
• Nicola Parma – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Riccardo Rognoni – Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte d'instrumenti et anco diversi passaggi per la semplice voce humana di Richardo Rogniono espulso di Val Tavegia. Venice.

Classical music

• none listed

Births

• date unknown
  • John Jenkins, English composer (died 1678)
  • Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian composer (died 1665)

Deaths

• February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, diplomat and composer (b. c. 1536)
• May – Giovanni Domenico da Nola, Neapolitan poet and composer (born c. 1510)
• May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, theologian and musician (b. 1532)
• July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, composer (b. c. 1547)
• date unknown – Annibale Zoilo, singer and composer (b. c. 1537)

References

1. David Lasocki, Denis Arnold, and Fabio Ferraccioli, "Bassano: (2) Lodovico Bassano", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).