1606 in music

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The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.

Events

January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.

Girolamo Montesardo – Italian: Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar

date unknown
- William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
- Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
- Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)

January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
date unknown
- Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
- Jiří Nigrin, music publisher
probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)

Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd. ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 125. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.

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