1589 in music

Events

• November 30 – Luca Marenzio returns to Rome from Florence.
• The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany is celebrated with six staged intermezzi, featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri and Giovanni de' Bardi, which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.
• Tarquinia Molza is dismissed from the court of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with the composer Giaches de Wert.

Publications

• Costanzo Antegnati – Second book of masses for six and eight voices
• Ippolito Baccusi – Third book of masses for five and six voices
• Ludovico Balbi – Musicale essercitio for five voices, a collection of madrigals
• Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones for eight voices
• Giulio Belli – First book of madrigals for five and six voices
• William Byrd
• * Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1, for five voices
• * Songs of Sundrie Natures for three, four, five, and six voices
• * Madrigals for six voices
• Johannes Eccard – Neue Lieder for four and five voices
• Andrea Gabrieli
• *Third book of madrigals for five voices, published posthumously, includes a few pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli
• *Madrigali et ricercari for four voices, published posthumously
• Jacobus Gallus
• *Harmoniarum moralium for four voices, book one
• *Epicedion harmonicum, a funeral motet
• Ruggiero Giovannelli – Gli sdruccioli for four voices, book two, a book of madrigals
• Francisco Guerrero
• *Second book of motets for four, five, six, and eight voices
• *Canciones y villanescas espirituales for three, four, and five voices
• Konrad Hagius – Die Psalmen Davids for four voices, sets the translation by Kaspar Ulenberg
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Liber Sacrarum Cantionum for seven to sixteen voices with instruments
• Paolo Isnardi – First book of madrigals for six voices
• Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for six voices
• Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigali spirituali for six and seven voices
• Jakob Paix – Thesaurus Motetarum, a collection of keyboard arrangements of motets by various composers
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hymni totius anni... for four voices
• Giovanni Maria Papalia – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola – Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci
• Andreas Pevernage – First book of chansons for five voices
• Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette

Classical music

• Giulio Caccini – Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna

Births

• bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer date unknown – Giovanni Battista Fontana, violinist and composer

Deaths

• date unknown – Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde
• probable
• *Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
• *Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist