1596

Events in 1596 3

• 1535 – 1596 Giaches de Wert Franco-Flemish madrigal composer Giaches de Wert was a prolific madrigalist whose later works anticipated the expressiveness of the early Baroque. His influence on Monteverdi was profound.
• 1550 – 1596 Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder Italian Renaissance composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder was an Italian composer active in England whose madrigals had great influence on native English composers including William Byrd.
• 1596 – 1597 The Cudgel War Peasant Uprising A bloody peasant revolt against the nobility and the "castle camp" system of taxation during the Swedish era.