1593 in music

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Contents

1 Events
2 Music composed and published
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References

Events

In 1593 and 1594, Diomedes Cato went with King Sigismund to Sweden, where his fame as a lutenist and composer was large.
Johann (Johannes) Christoph Demantius, German poet/composer and music theorist, received a degree from the University of Wittenberg.
Composer William Byrd moved to Essex.
Peter Philips moves to Amsterdam, and probably meets Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in this year.

Music composed and published

Thomas Morley – Canzonets. Or Little Short Songs To Three Voyces
Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus composed The Tears of Saint Peter (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.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes a collection of Offertoria, his last publication.^[1]

Births

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

February - Nicolao Dorati, trombone player and composer (b. 1513)
date unknown - Count Mario Bevilacqua, patron of music and collector of instruments (b. 1536)

References

^ Hughes, Augustus; British Museum Dept. (1906). Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum. London, UK: British Museum. pp. 333. http://books.google.com/books?id=6IM6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA333&dq=palestrina+offertoria&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=X82lR9DVIJXGyASlyb3DCA. Retrieved 2008-02-03.