1583 in music
Events
- Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.
Publications
- Lodovico Agostini â for five voices, book 3, Op. 10 (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Elias Ammerbach â (Nuremberg: Gerlach), a collection of organ intabulations of various composers
- Giammateo Asola
- (Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola)
- for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Girolamo Belli â First book of madrigals for six voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Joachim a Burck â (In Holy Matrimony) for four voices or instruments (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), forty settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
- Maddalena Casulana â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Camillo Cortellini â First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Paschal de l'Estocart â (150 Psalms of David) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
- Costanzo Festa â (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
- Andrea Gabrieli â (Penitential Psalms) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- William Hunnis â 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 â First book of airs and chansons for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Léon Cavellat)
- Orlande de Lassus â (New German Songs, sacred and secular) for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Cristofano Malvezzi â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Rinaldo del Mel â Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo â First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte â First book of for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Monteverdi â (Cremona: Pietro Bozzola & Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a book of madrigals with sacred texts
- Jakob Paix â , a book of organ arrangements of dances and motets by various composers
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Fourth book of masses for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano), setting texts from the Song of Songs
- Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi â (German Magnificats in the eight musical tones) for four and five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
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