# 1599 in music
## Events

* Claudio Monteverdi marries court singer Claudia Cattaneo,
* Gregor Aichinger begins a two-year sojourn in Rome.

## Publications

* Richard Allison – The psalmes of David in meter
* Giovanni Francesco Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giammateo Asola
** Nova omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia (New Vespers psalms for all solemnities) for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
** Secundi chori vespertinae omnium solemnitatum psalmodiae for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Adriano Banchieri – Messa solenne for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giovanni Bassano – Second book of Concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Lodovico Bellanda – Canzonette spirituali for two, three, and four voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne & Scipione Vargnano)
* Giulio Belli – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces
* Valerio Bona – Fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
* Joachim a Burck – Quadraginta Odae catecheticae in laudem Dei, et piae iuventutis usum (Forty catechetical odes in praise of God for use by pious youth) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold
* Giovanni Paolo Cima – First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
* Giovanni Croce – Masses for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Baldassare Donato – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Johannes Eccard – Hochzeit Liedt (Gleichwie ein Schütz) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
* Thomas Elsbeth
** Neue Ausserlesene Weltliche Lieder (Exceptional New Secular Songs) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
** Neue geistliche, zu Christlicher Andacht bewegende Lieder (New Spiritual Songs that Evoke Christian Devotion) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
* John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices (London: William Barley for Thomas Morley)
* Ruggiero Giovannelli – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Hans Leo Hassler – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman)
* Anthony Holborne – Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs, both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, or other Musicall Winde Instruments (London: William Barley)
* Giovanni de Macque – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace)
* Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Tiburtio Massaino
** Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
** Musica super Threnos Ieremie prophete for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Holy Week
* Simone Molinaro
** First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
** First book of Intavolatura di liuto (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Philippe de Monte – La fiammetta for seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals
* Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Asprilio Pacelli – Chorici psalmi et mocteta quatuor vocum, liber primus (Rome: Nicolo Mutii)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
** Eighth book of masses
** Ninth book of masses
* Tomaso Pecci – Canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains fifteen pieces by Pecci and fifteen by Mariano Tantucci
* Hieronymus Praetorius – Cantiones sacrae de praecipuis festis totius anni for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
* Enrico Antonio Radesca – Thesoro amoroso, first book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)

## Sacred music

* Philipp Nicolai
** "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
** "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"

## Opera

* None recorded

## Births

* March 23 – Thomas Selle, composer (died 1663)
* October 10 – Étienne Moulinié, composer (died 1676)

## Deaths

* January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer (born 1547)
* August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born c.1553)
* October 16 – Jacob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1540)
* November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, composer (born 1528)