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The year 1609 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Heinrich Schütz comes to Venice to study under Giovanni Gabrieli.

Publications

• Eustache du Caurroy – Preces ecclesiasticae (Church prayers), two volumes of sacred music.
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes L'Orfeo in Venice; this opera had been performed previously in 1607.
• Thomas Ravenscroft - Deuteromelia
  • - Pammelia
• John Wilbye – The Second Set Of Madrigales To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces.

Classical music

Opera

Births

• date unknown - Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (died 1661)

Deaths

• May 15 - Giovanni Croce, composer (born 1557)
• August 7 - Eustache du Caurroy, French composer (born 1549)