Events
* 1593–1594 –
Diomedes Cato goes with King Sigismund to Sweden, where his fame as a
lutenist
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can refe ...
and composer is large.
*
Johann (Johannes) Christoph Demantius, German poet/composer and music theorist, receives a degree from the
University of Wittenberg.
* English composer
William Byrd moves to Essex.
*
Peter Philips moves to Amsterdam, and probably meets
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in this year.
Music published
*
Raffaella Aleotti
Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620), believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotta (c. 1570 – after 1646) was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist.
Early life
She was born in Ferrara to the prominent architect Giovanni Batt ...
**''Sacrae cantiones'', book 1 (Venice:
Ricciardo Amadino
Ricciardo Amadino (''fl.'' 1572–1621) was a Venetian printer, specialising in music.
Amadino briefly attempted to publish music on his own in 1579, but was unsuccessful. He joined with Giacomo Vincenti, with whom he published over 80 books betw ...
)
**''Ghirlanda de madrigali'' (Garland of madrigals) (Venice:
Giacomo Vincenti
Giacomo Vincenti (died 1619) was an Italian bookseller and music printer from Venice. He also spelled his name Vincenci and Vincenzi. He started printing in 1583. His partner was Ricciardo Amadino, and between 1583 and 1586 they printed about twen ...
)
*
Blasius Amon – ... (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
*
Giammateo Asola – for six voices (Venice:
Ricciardo Amadino
Ricciardo Amadino (''fl.'' 1572–1621) was a Venetian printer, specialising in music.
Amadino briefly attempted to publish music on his own in 1579, but was unsuccessful. He joined with Giacomo Vincenti, with whom he published over 80 books betw ...
), also includes a
Magnificat
*
Ippolito Baccusi
Ippolito Baccusi (also Baccusii, Hippolyti) (c. 1550 – 2 September 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in northern Italy, including Venice, Mantua, and Verona. A member of the Venetian School of composers, he had a str ...
– Fourth book of masses for five and nine voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
*
Lodovico Bellanda
Lodovico Bellanda (c. 1575 – after 1613) was an Italian composer and organist who lived in the transition period between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. He was born and worked most of his life in Verona, for which reason he was also known ...
– First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
*
Girolamo Belli – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
*
Giulio Belli
Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in m ...
**Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
**Second book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
*
Fabrizio Dentice
Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in Naples – 24 February 1581 in Naples) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player.
Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice (1510–1566) who served the powerful Sanseverino family ...
– Lamentations for five voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini)
*
Girolamo Diruta – (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a treatise on organ playing, including tablatures of original pieces and pieces by various composers
*
Johannes Eccard
Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) was a German composer and kapellmeister. He was an early principal conductor at the Berlin court chapel.
Biography
Eccard was born at Mühlhausen, in present-day Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to ...
– (Königsberg: Georg Osterberg), wedding music
*
Andrea Gabrieli &
Giovanni Gabrieli – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously for Andrea
*
Bartholomäus Gesius – Psalm 112 for five voices (Frankfurt (Oder): Friedrich Hartmann), a
wedding motet
*
Ruggiero Giovannelli
**First book of motets for five and eight voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
**Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
*
Rinaldo del Mel – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
*
Claudio Merulo – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
*
Philippe de Monte
** for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
**Sixteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
*
Thomas Morley – ''Canzonets. Or Little Short Songs To Three Voyces'' (London: Thomas Este)
*
Giovanni Maria Nanino – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
*
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes a collection of
Offertoria, his last publication.
*
Benedetto Pallavicino – Fifth book of madrigals to five voices (Venice:
Giacomo Vincenti
Giacomo Vincenti (died 1619) was an Italian bookseller and music printer from Venice. He also spelled his name Vincenci and Vincenzi. He started printing in 1583. His partner was Ricciardo Amadino, and between 1583 and 1586 they printed about twen ...
)
Music composed
* Franco-Flemish
Renaissance master
Orlande de Lassus began composing ''
Lagrime di San Pietro
The ''Lagrime di San Pietro'' (Italian: ''Saint Peter's Tears'') is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus (Roland de Lassus). Written in 1594 for seven voices, it is structured as three s ...
'' (1593–1594), dedicated to
Pope Clement VIII: it was the final work of Lassus and considered, by some, the absolute summit of the 16th-century Italian
madrigal. It would be completed early in 1594, and published in 1595.
Births
*
April 3 –
George Herbert, poet, orator, hymnist (d.
1633
Events
January–March
* January 20 – Galileo Galilei, having been summoned to Rome on orders of Pope Urban VIII, leaves for Florence for his journey. His carriage is halted at Ponte a Centino at the border of Tuscany, where ...
)
*
September 20 –
Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (d. 1661)
*''date unknown'' –
Claudia Rusca
Claudia Rusca (1593 – 6 October 1676) was an Italian composer, singer, and organist.
She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probably ...
, composer, singer, and organist (d. 1676)
Deaths
*February –
Nicolao Dorati, trombone player and composer (b. 1513)
*''date unknown'' –
**
Count Mario Bevilacqua, patron of music and collector of instruments (b. 1536)
**Lodovico Bassano (buried 18 July), London wind player and composer
References
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