1593 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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.

Births

• April 3 - George Herbert, poet, orator, hymnist (d. 1633)
• September 20 - Gottfried Scheidt, organist and composer (d. 1661)
• date unknown - Claudia Rusca, composer, singer, and organist (d. 1676)

Deaths

• February - Nicolao Dorati, trombone player and composer (b. 1513)
• date unknown - Count Mario Bevilacqua, patron of music and collector of instruments (b. 1536)