1599 in music

Events

 * Claudio Monteverdi marries court singer Claudia Cattaneo,
 * Gregor Aichinger begins a two-year sojourn in Rome.

Publications

 * Richard Allison – The psalmes of David in meter
 * Giovanni Francesco Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Giammateo Asola
 * Nova omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia (New Vespers psalms for all solemnities) for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Secundi chori vespertinae omnium solemnitatum psalmodiae for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Adriano Banchieri – Messa solenne for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Giovanni Bassano – Second book of Concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Lodovico Bellanda – Canzonette spirituali for two, three, and four voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne & Scipione Vargnano)
 * Giulio Belli – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces
 * Valerio Bona – Fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
 * Joachim a Burck – Quadraginta Odae catecheticae in laudem Dei, et piae iuventutis usum (Forty catechetical odes in praise of God for use by pious youth) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold
 * Giovanni Paolo Cima – First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
 * Giovanni Croce – Masses for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Baldassare Donato – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Johannes Eccard – Hochzeit Liedt (Gleichwie ein Schütz) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
 * Thomas Elsbeth
 * Neue Ausserlesene Weltliche Lieder (Exceptional New Secular Songs) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
 * Neue geistliche, zu Christlicher Andacht bewegende Lieder (New Spiritual Songs that Evoke Christian Devotion) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
 * John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices (London: William Barley for Thomas Morley)
 * Ruggiero Giovannelli – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Hans Leo Hassler – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman)
 * Anthony Holborne – Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs, both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, or other Musicall Winde Instruments (London: William Barley)
 * Giovanni de Macque – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace)
 * Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Tiburtio Massaino
 * Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Musica super Threnos Ieremie prophete for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Holy Week
 * Simone Molinaro
 * First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
 * First book of Intavolatura di liuto (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Philippe de Monte – La fiammetta for seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals
 * Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Asprilio Pacelli – Chorici psalmi et mocteta quatuor vocum, liber primus (Rome: Nicolo Mutii)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
 * Eighth book of masses
 * Ninth book of masses
 * Tomaso Pecci – Canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains fifteen pieces by Pecci and fifteen by Mariano Tantucci
 * Hieronymus Praetorius – Cantiones sacrae de praecipuis festis totius anni for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
 * Enrico Antonio Radesca – Thesoro amoroso, first book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)

Sacred music

 * Philipp Nicolai
 * "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
 * "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"

Opera

 * None recorded

Births

 * March 23 – Thomas Selle, composer (died 1663)
 * October 10 – Étienne Moulinié, composer (died 1676)

Deaths

 * January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer (born 1547)
 * August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born c.1553)
 * October 16 – Jacob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1540)
 * November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, composer (born 1528)