# 1587 in music
## Events

* January 31 – Pedro Bermúdez is dismissed from the position of maestro de capilla of the collegiate church at Antequera and briefly imprisoned, for gross negligence and a fight with one of his tenors.
* November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.

## Publications

* Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Giammateo Asola
** Nova vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
** Le Vergini for three voices, book 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's Vergine bella [it]
** Madrigals for two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Ludovico Balbi – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion nuptiis (Sponsa decora veni) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
* Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
** First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Concerti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
* Vincenzo Galilei – Second book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Jacobus Gallus – Opus musicum, volumes 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
** Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
** Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Orlande de Lassus – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach), his seventh and final book of only madrigals
* Carolus Luython – Popularis anni jubilus for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets
* Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Luca Marenzio
** Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
** Fourth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
** Fifth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Tiburtio Massaino
** Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Rinaldo del Mel – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte
** First book of masses (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
** Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
* Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of motets for four voices
* Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

## Compositions

* Adam Puschmann, Wachtelweise, a Meisterton, collected in his manuscript Singebuch (1588)

## Births

* February 26 (baptized) – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher (died 1639)
* September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)
* November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)
* date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer (died 1642)

## Deaths

* February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer (born 1508)
* June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer (born c.1544)
* August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer (born c.1540/1541)