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

• William Byrd
  • Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1
  • Songs of Sundrie Natures
• Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola - Primo libro de madrigali
• 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 (d. 1640)

Deaths

• date unknown - Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde (born c.1510)
• probable
  • Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
  • Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist (born c.1493/1506)