1602 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• none listed

Publications

• February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche ^[1] (The New Music), published in Florence

Classical music

• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

• Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

• February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
• April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)

Deaths

• January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
• March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
• October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
• November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)

Notes

1. Le nuove musiche was published in 1602 per the Gregorian calendar. Some sources list 1601, based on the Julian calendar, as the publication date.