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
• Giammateo Asola
• *Nova Vespers for eight voices, also includes a Magnificat
• *Le Vergini for three voices, book 2, a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's
• *Madrigals for two voices
• Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices
• Ludovico Balbi – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices
• Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices
• Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion nuptiis for five voices, a wedding song
• Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
• *First book of madrigals for five voices
• *Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Concerti, the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
• Vincenzo Galilei – Second book of madrigals for four and five voices
• Jacobus Gallus – Opus musicum, volumes 2 & 3
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
• *Second book of masses for five voices
• *Fifth book of madrigals for five voices
• Orlande de Lassus – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices, his seventh and final book of only madrigals
• Carolus Luython – Popularis anni jubilus for six voices, a collection of motets
• Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Luca Marenzio
• *Fourth book of madrigals for six voices
• *Fourth book of villanelle for three voices
• *Fifth book of villanelle for three voices
• Tiburtio Massaino
• *Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices
• *Second book of masses for five voices
• *Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Rinaldo del Mel – Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Philippe de Monte
• *First book of masses
• *Second book of motets for six voices
• *Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices
• Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo, a book of madrigals
• Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of motets for four voices
• Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for six voices

Compositions

• Adam Puschmann, Wachtelweise, a Meisterton, collected in his manuscript Singebuch

Births

• February 26 – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher
• September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist
• November 3 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer
• date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer

Deaths

• February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer
• June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer
• August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer