1601 in music

Events

• November – Paul Peuerl becomes organist at Horn, Austria.
• Claudio Monteverdi is appointed maestro di musica to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua.
• Giovanni Bassano succeeds Girolamo Dalla Casa as head of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.
• English composer and organist Thomas Hunt supplicates for degree of MusB at University of Cambridge.

Publications

• Gregor Aichinger – Odaria lectissima ex melitiss. D. Bernardi jubilo delibata..., a collection of sacred songs for three and four voices
• Adriano Banchieri – Il Metamorfosi musicale, fourth book of canzonettas for three voices
• Valerio Bona
• *Second book of masses and motets for two choirs
• *First book of madrigals and canzonas for five voices
• Joachim Burmeister – Geistlicher Psalmen D. M. L. und anderer gottseligen Menner for four voices
• Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche
• Giovanni Croce
• *Sacrae cantiones for five voices
• *First book of canzonettas for three voices
• Christoph Demantius – 77 neue außerlesene, liebliche, zierliche, polnischer und teutscher Art, Täntze mit und ohne Texten for four and five voices
• Johannes Eccard – Braut Lied for six voices, a wedding song
• Melchior Franck – First book of sacrae melodiae for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices
• Andrea Gabrieli – Mascherate for three, four, five, six, and eight voices, published posthumously, also includes pieces by Ippolito Chamaterò, Orazio Vecchi, and Geminiano Capilupi
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Geistliche Deutsche Lieder for four and five voices
• Gioseffo Guami – Partitura per sonare delle canzonette alla francese
• Adam Gumpelzhaimer – Sacrorum concentuum, book one, for eight voices
• Hans Leo Hassler
• *Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng for four, five, six, and eight voices
• *Sacri concentus, book 1
• Jakob Hassler – Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices, also includes a mass and a setting of Psalm 51
• Joachim van den Hove – Florida
• Claude Le Jeune – The 150 Psalms for four and five voices, published posthumously
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Madrigali... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani, featuring works written before 1597 for the Concerto delle donne
• Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of motets for six voices
• Simone Molinaro – Second book of motets for eight voices
• Philippe de Monte – last of thirty-four books of madrigals
• Thomas Morley – Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors
• Asprilio Pacelli – Madrigali... libro primo, a quattro voci
• Pietro Paolo Paciotto – Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum..., book 1
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Twelfth book of masses, published posthumously
• Orfeo Vecchi
• *The seven penitential psalms for six voices
• *Psalmi in totius anni solemnitatibus

Classical music

• ''Ballet du Roy Henry IV''

Musical theatre

• Adriano Banchieri – Il metamorfosi musicale, a madrigal comedy

Opera

• ''none listed''

Births

• date unknown – Michelangelo Rossi, opera composer
• probable – Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer

Deaths

• January 4 – Laura Peverara, singer
• May 19 – Costanzo Porta, composer
• November 26 – Benedetto Pallavicino, organist and composer
• date unknown – Girolamo Dalla Casa, composer