1593 in music

Overview of the events of 1593 in music

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## Events

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* 1593–1594 – Diomedes Cato goes with King Sigismund to Sweden, where his fame as a lutenist 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

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* Raffaella Aleotti
* Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Ghirlanda de madrigali (Garland of madrigals) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Blasius Amon – Breves et selectae quaedam motetae... (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
* Giammateo Asola – Sacra omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia for six voices (Venice:Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
* Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of masses for five and nine voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Lodovico Bellanda – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Girolamo Belli – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giulio Belli
* Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Second book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Fabrizio Dentice – Lamentations for five voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini)
* Girolamo Diruta – Il Transilvano (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a treatise on organ playing, including tablatures of original pieces and pieces by various composers
* Johannes Eccard – Epithalamia (Regina Stephanoque; Frölich zu sein) (Königsberg: Georg Osterberg), wedding music
* Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Intonationi d'organo, libro primo (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
* Eccellenze di Maria Vergine 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.[1]
* Benedetto Pallavicino – Fifth book of madrigals to five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

## Music composed

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* Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus began composing Lagrime di San Pietro (1593–1594), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII: it was the final work of Lassus and considered, by some,[who?] the absolute summit of the 16th-century Italian madrigal. It would be completed early in 1594, and published in 1595.

## Births

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* April 3 – George Herbert, poet, orator, hymnist (d. 1633)
* September 20 – Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (d. 1661)
* date unknown – Claudia Rusca, composer, singer, and organist (d. 1676)

## Deaths

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* 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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1. ^ Hughes, Augustus; British Museum Dept. (1906). Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum. London, UK: British Museum. pp. 333. Retrieved 2008-02-03. "palestrina offertoria."