1589 in music

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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

• Costanzo Antegnati – Second book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Ippolito Baccusi – Third book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Ludovico Balbi – for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of madrigals
• Girolamo Belli – (Motets) for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giulio Belli – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• William Byrd
  • , Book 1, for five voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
  • Songs of Sundrie Natures for three, four, five, and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
  • Madrigals for six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
• Johannes Eccard – (New Songs) for four and five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
• Andrea Gabrieli
  • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, includes a few pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli
  • for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
• Jacobus Gallus
  • (Moral Harmonies) for four voices, book one (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a funeral motet
• Ruggiero Giovannelli – for four voices, book two (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
• Francisco Guerrero
  • Second book of motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Konrad Hagius – for four voices (Dusseldorf: Albert Byuss), sets the translation by Kaspar Ulenberg
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – for seven to sixteen voices with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Paolo Isnardi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte – Second book of for six and seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Jakob Paix – , a collection of keyboard arrangements of motets by various composers (Stuttgart, Bernhart Jobin)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – ... for four voices
• Giovanni Maria Papalia – First book of madrigals for five voices (Messina: Fausto Bufalini)
• Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola – (Venice: Scipione Riccio)
• Andreas Pevernage – First book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
• Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette

Classical music

• Giulio Caccini –

Births

• bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer (d. 1640)
• date unknown – Giovanni Battista Fontana, violinist and composer (d. 1630)

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)