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 (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Elias Ammerbach – Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch... (Nuremberg: Gerlach), a collection of organ intabulations of various composers Giammateo Asola Introitus missarum omnium solemnitatum totius anni, & alleluia, ac musica super canto plano (Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola) In passionibus quatuor evangelistarum Christi locutio for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Duplex completorium romanum in unum communibus, alterum vero paribus vocibus decantandem (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Primum pars musices continens hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Girolamo Belli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Joachim a Burck – Vom Heiligen Ehstande (In Holy Matrimony) for four voices or instruments (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), forty settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Camillo Cortellini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Paschal de l'Estocart – Cent cinquante pseaumes de David (150 Psalms of David) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent) Costanzo Festa – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously Andrea Gabrieli – Psalmi Davidici, qui poenitentiales nuncupantur (Penitential Psalms) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) William Hunnis – 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 – First book of airs and chansons for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Léon Cavellat) Orlande de Lassus – Neue teutsche Lieder, geistlich und weltlich (New German Songs, sacred and secular) for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg) Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Rinaldo del Mel – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigali spirituali for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali spirituali a quattro voci posti in musica da Claudio Monteverde Cremonese, discepolo del Signor Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri (Cremona: Pietro Bozzola & Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a book of madrigals with sacred texts 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 (Rome: Alessandro Gardano), setting texts from the Song of Songs Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Deutsche Magnificat auff die acht Tonos Musicales (German Magnificats in the eight musical tones) for four and five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel) == Births == September 13 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Ferrarese keyboardist and composer (died 1643) December 25 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (died 1625) probable Paolo Agostino, organist and composer (died 1629) Johann Daniel Mylius, chemist and composer for the lute (died 1642) Nicolas Vallet, lutenist and composer (died c.1642) == Deaths == date unknown – Sebastian Westcott, organist of St Paul's Cathedral (born c.1524) == References ==