1593 in music

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. [cite book|title=Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum|pages=333|date=1906|last=Hughes|first=Augustus|coauthors=British Museum Dept.|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6IM6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA333&dq=palestrina+offertoria&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=X82lR9DVIJXGyASlyb3DCA
accessdate=2008-02-03|publisher=British Museum|location=London, UK]

Births

* George Herbert, poet, orator, hymnist (d. 1633)

Deaths

* Mario Bevilacqua, patron of music, collector of instruments, dies (b. 1536)

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