1583 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.

Publications

  • Lodovico Agostini – Il nuovo Echo for five voices, book 3, Op. 10 (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
  • Elias Ammerbach – Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch... (Nuremberg: Gerlach), a collection of organ intabulations of various composers
  • Giammateo Asola
  • Girolamo Belli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
  • Joachim a Burck – Vom Heiligen Ehstande (In Holy Matrimony) for four voices or instruments (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), forty settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
  • Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Camillo Cortellini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
  • Paschal de l'Estocart – Cent cinquante pseaumes de David (150 Psalms of David) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
  • Costanzo Festa – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
  • Andrea Gabrieli – Psalmi Davidici, qui poenitentiales nuncupantur (Penitential Psalms) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • William Hunnis – Seven sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne (London: Henry Denham), a setting of the penitential psalms and other sacred songs
  • Nicolas de La Grotte – First book of airs and chansons for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Léon Cavellat)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Neue teutsche Lieder, geistlich und weltlich (New German Songs, sacred and secular) for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Rinaldo del Mel – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigali spirituali for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali spirituali a quattro voci posti in musica da Claudio Monteverde Cremonese, discepolo del Signor Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri (Cremona: Pietro Bozzola & Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a book of madrigals with sacred texts
  • Jakob Paix – Ein Schön Nutz und Gebräuchlich Orgel Tabulaturbuch..., a book of organ arrangements of dances and motets by various composers
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fourth book of masses for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano), setting texts from the Song of Songs
  • Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Deutsche Magnificat auff die acht Tonos Musicales (German Magnificats in the eight musical tones) for four and five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)

Classical music

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