Question: When was the Italian composer, string player and choirmaster died who was prominent as a madrigalist like Giovanni Croce?
Context: The Costabili collection or Costabili Gallery was a large art collection in Ferrara in the 19th century, mainly consisting of Ferrarese art.  Works from the collection were purchased by mid and late 19th-century art collectors like Giovanni Morelli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Eastlake, eventually ending in many of the major collections of art around the world.  A significant group of paintings ended up in the National Gallery in London. Orfeo Vecchi (ca. 15511603) was an Italian composer and choirmaster.  His most important appointment as choirmaster was at Santa Maria alla Scala, Milan.  His extant compositions date as early as 1588. Marziano Perosi (Tortona October 20, 1875 – Rome February 21, 1959), brother of Don Lorenzo Perosi and of Cardinal Carlo Perosi.  Italian composer, choirmaster, and organist.  He was an organist and choirmaster at the in Pompei, assistant to his brother Lorenzo at the Sistine Chapel, and organist and choirmaster of the Duomo of Milan.  His most significant composition was the opera "Pompei." Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra , also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio because the title character is played by a tenor and the opera appeared the same year as Mozart's version, (English: "Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest") is the most famous opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga.  It belongs to the genre of dramma giocoso and is in one act.  "Don Giovanni Tenorio" was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on February 5, 1787.  The libretto, by Giovanni Bertati, is based on the legend of Don Juan as told by Tirso de Molina in his play "The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest" (c. 1630), leading to comparisons with Mozart's "Don Giovanni", which had its premiere later in 1787.  Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, certainly knew the earlier opera.  Gazzaniga's work is much shorter than Mozart's, however, and originally formed part of a double-bill with another piece, "Il capriccio drammatico". Giovanni Croce (] ; also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis, Zuanne Chiozotto; 1557 – 15 May 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School.  He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi. Paolo Dagomari da Prato (1282–1374), known in Latin as Paulus Geometrus ("Paolo il Geometra", "Paul the Geometer"), was a noted Florentine mathematician and astronomer, such a "maestro dell'abbaco" (master/teacher of the abacus) that he gained the epithet Paolo dell'Abbaco.  Franco Sacchetti called him "Paolo Arismetra e Astrologo" (arithmetician and astronomer) and Giorgio Vasari "Paulo Strolago" or "Paolo Astrologo" (astronomer).  He reputedly had 6,000–10,000 pupils over the course of his life, being praised by contemporaries like Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Filippo Villani, and Giovanni Villani in his "Cronica". Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, oboist, organist, choirmaster and teacher.  He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach.  It has also been noted that many stylizations in Joseph Haydn's compositions are similar to those of Sammartini, although Haydn denied any such influence.  Sammartini is especially associated with the formation of the concert symphony through both the shift from a brief opera-overture style and the introduction of a new seriousness and use of thematic development that prefigure Haydn and Mozart.  Some of his works are described as "galant", a style associated with Enlightenment ideals, while "the prevailing impression left by Sammartini's work... [is that] he contributed greatly to the development of a Classical style that achieved its moment of greatest clarity precisely when his long, active life was approaching its end". Alfonso Ferrabosco (baptized 18 January 154312 August 1588) was an Italian composer.  While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music.  He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy. Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613 – 24 October 1648) was an Italian composer and choirmaster of the early Baroque period. Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (] ; 15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.  A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods of music history.
Answer: 29 November 1643