for five voices Nicholas Yonge (ed.) – , (London: Thomas East), a collection of Italian madrigals with English translated lyrics, credited with sparking the English Madrigal School The Walsingham Consort Books are copied, probably by Daniel Bacheler, who was only 15 or 16 years old at the time and contributed seven of his own pieces to this collection for broken consort Classical music Krzysztof Klabon – Pieśni Kalliopy Slowieńskiey: na terażnieysze pod Byczyną zwycięstwo, a cycle of six songs for voice and lute to texts by Stanisław Grochowski, celebrating the Battle of Byczyna, which ended the War of the Polish Succession Births June 9 (bapt.) – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and music theorist (d. 1666) June 30 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist and composer (d. 1649) September 10 (bapt.) – Nicholas Lanier, English lutenist and composer (d. 1666) September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician and music theorist (d. 1648) Deaths August 12 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), composer (b. 1543) Music 16th century in music Music by year