# 1594 in music
## 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
** First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
** Second book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
* Adam Gumpelzhaimer – Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder (New German Sacred Songs) for four voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
* Johannes Herold – Historia, deß Leidens unnd Sterbens unsers Herrn und Haylandts Jesu Christu auß dem H. Euangelisten Mattheo for six voices (Grätz: Georg Widmanstetter)
* Paolo Isnardi – Missa cum motteto for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Orlande de Lassus – Motets for six voices (Graz: Georg Widmanstetter)
* Claude Le Jeune – Airs for four and five voices (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and the widow of R. Ballard)
* Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
* Luca Marenzio – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Tiburtio Massaino – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Rinaldo del Mel
** Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Third book of madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Merulo – Sacrorum concentuum, book one for eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte – Eighth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Thomas Morley – Madrigalls To Foure Voyces ... The First Booke (London: Thomas Este)
* John Mundy – Songs and psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London: Thomas Este)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
** Sixth book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
** Seventh book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
* 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)