1603 in music

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The year 1603 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • January 1 – Francesco Soriano is appointed maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Basilica, replacing Asprilio Pacelli
  • Orlando Gibbons becomes a member of the Chapel Royal.[1]
  • Giovanni Artusi attacks the "crudities" and "licence" in the works of Claudio Monteverdi.
  • Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia leaves his post as organist of Huesca Cathedral to become maestro de música at La Seo Cathedral in Saragossa.
  • Asprilio Pacelli is appointed maestro di capella for King Sigismund III of Poland.

Publications

  • Agostino Agazzari
    • Sacrae laudes... liber secundus (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
    • Sacrarum cantionum... liber tertius (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
  • Gregor Aichinger
    • Liturgica sive sacra officia, ad omnes dies festos Magnae Dei Matris per annum celebrari solitos (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
    • Vespertinum Virginis canticum sive Magnificat... (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
    • Ghirlanda di canzonette spirituali, for three voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
  • Costanzo Antegnati – Book 14: Missa Borromea, motets, and French chansons for three choirs (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Adriano Banchieri – Fantasie o vero canzoni alla francese for organ and other musical instruments, for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni festivitatibus (Vespers psalms for the feasts of the whole year) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes three Magnificats
  • Sethus Calvisius – Tricinia for three voices or instruments (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg for Jacob Apel), a collection of sacred songs in German
  • Giovanni Croce – Devotissime Lamentationi et Improperii per la Settimana Santa for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), music for Holy Week
  • John Dowland – The third and last booke of songs or aires (London: Peter Short for Thomas Adams)
  • Johannes Eccard – HochzeitLied (Lasst uns singen) for four voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
  • Christian Erbach – Mele sive cantiones sacrae ad modum canzonette ut vocant for four voices (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius)
  • Achille Falcone – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), published posthumously
  • Stefano Felis – Second book of masses for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Melchior Franck
    • Opusculum for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
    • Neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, unnd Intraden for four, five, and six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
    • Noch ein ander Quodlibet dem Herrn Marx Weisen for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • Bartholomäus Gesius – Enchiridium etlicher deutschen und lateinischen Gesengen for four voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
  • Carlo Gesualdo – Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 2 vols. (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
  • Claude Le Jeune – Le printemps (The Spring) for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: the widow of R. Ballard and his son Pierre Ballard), a collection of airs, published posthumously
  • Carolus Luython – Selectissimum sacrarum cantionum for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets)
  • Ascanio Mayone – Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare (Naples: Costantino Vitale), a collection of keyboard music
  • Rogier Michael – Introitus Dominicorum dierum ac praecipuorum festorum for five voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a collection of motets
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Il quatro libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Ser.mo Sig.r Duca di Mantova (Fourth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Pomponio Nenna – Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Cantiones sacrae, published posthumously (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of masses (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Tomaso Pecci
    • Musicae modi in responsoria divini officii feria quarta, quinta & sexta, Sanctae Hebdomadae (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
    • First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), also contains one piece by Giulio Giuliani
  • Peter Philips – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Orfeo Vecchi
    • First book of Magnificats for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
    • First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostini Tradate)
    • Cantiones sacrae for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)

Classical music

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum, composed for the funeral obsequies of Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, performed on April 22 and 23

Opera

  • none listed

Births

  • March 18 – King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and writer on music (died 1656)
  • November – Francesco Foggia, composer (died 1688)
  • date unknown
    • Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)
    • William Smith, liturgical composer (died 1645)
  • probable – Benedetto Ferrari, composer and theorbo player (died 1681)

Deaths

  • June – Baldassare Donato, composer and singer (born 1525–1530)
  • July 4 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (born 1521)
  • August 2 – Rinaldo dall'Arpa, composer, singer and harpist
  • August 16 – Cardinal Silvio Antoniani, amateur musician (born 1540)
  • September 25 – Stefano Felis, Neapolitan composer and music teacher (born c.1538)
  • October 23 – Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (born 1537)
  • date unknown – Ambrosio Cotes, Spanish composer (born c.1550)

References

  1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 301. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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