1583 in music
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
- Elias Ammerbach – Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch..., a collection of organ intabulations of various composers
- Giammateo Asola
- *Introitus missarum omnium solemnity
- *In Passion for three voices
- *Duplex completorium romanum in unum communibus, alterum vero paribus vocibus decantandem
- *Primum pars musices continens Holy Week
- Girolamo Belli – First book of madrigals for six voices
- Joachim a Burck – Vom Heiligen Ehstande for four voices or instruments, forty settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
- Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Camillo Cortellini – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali spirituali a quattro voci posti in musica da Claudio Monteverde Cremonese, discepolo del Signor Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri –
- 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, setting texts from the Song of Songs
Classical music
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