1592 in music
# 1592 in music

## Events

* November 13 – Lodovico Bassano marries Elizabeth Damon

## Publications

* Costanzo Antegnati – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giammateo Asola
   * Cantus firmus masses for organ and choir (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
   * Sacra, omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia for five voices (Venice:Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
* Paolo Bellasio – Villanellas for three voices, with lute tablature (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Valerio Bona – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giovanni Croce – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Thomas East (ed.) – The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London: Thomas East), contains new settings by English composers, including Edward Blancks, Edmund Hooper, and John Dowland
* Tiburtio Massaino
   * Sacri modulorum concentus for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices in two or three choirs with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
   * First book of motets for four voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
   * First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Merulo – First book of Canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of keyboard music
* Philippe de Monte – Fifteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Third book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Nicola Parma – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Riccardo Rognoni – Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte d'instrumenti et anco diversi passaggi per la semplice voce humana di Richardo Rogniono espulso di Val Tavegia. Venice.

## Classical music

* none listed

## Births

* date unknown
   * John Jenkins, English composer (died 1678)
   * Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian composer (died 1665)

## Deaths

* February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, diplomat and composer (b. c. 1536)
* May – Giovanni Domenico da Nola, Neapolitan poet and composer (born c. 1510)
* May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, theologian and musician (b. 1532)
* July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, composer (b. c. 1547)
* date unknown – Annibale Zoilo, singer and composer (b. c. 1537)
