1606 in music

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The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 5 - The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.

Publications

• Girolamo Montesardo – Italian: Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar

Classical music

• Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio)^[1]
• John Cooper – Funeral Teares

Opera

• Andrea Cima – La Gentile

Births

• date unknown
  • William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
  • Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
  • Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)

Deaths

• January 28 - Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
• September 9 - Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
• date unknown
  • Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
  • Jiří Nigrin, music publisher
• probable - Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)

References

1. Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd. ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 125. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.