1597 in music

Events

• Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

  Publications

• Gregor Aichinger – Third book of motets
• Giammateo Asola – Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for two choirs
• Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi omnes qui a S. Romana Ecclesia in solemnitatibus ad vesperas decantari solent..., for eight voices, also includes two Magnificats
• Adriano Banchieri
• *Hora prima di recreazione, first book of canzonettas for three voices
• *First book of madrigals for four voices
• Joachim a Burck – Die Historia des Leidens Jesu Christi auss dem Evangelisten S. Luca for five voices
• Sethus Calvisius – Harmonia cantionum ecclesiasticarum for four voices, a collection of Lutheran hymns
• John Dowland – The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
• Anthony Holborne – Cittarn Schoole
• George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
• Thomas Morley – A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
• Pietro Pace – Madrigali a cinque voci con uno a sei & un dialogo a sette
• Asprilio Pacelli – First book of motets and psalms to eight voices
• Orazio Vecchi
• *Canzonette a3
• *L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy

  Classical music

Opera

• Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera

  Births

• July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios
• date unknown
• *Andreas Düben, organist and composer
• *Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas

  Deaths

• January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist
• June 6 – William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
• October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer