1573 in music
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Events
- Approximate formation date of the Florentine CamerataFlorentine CamerataThe Florentine Camerata was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama...
, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573). - Manuel Rodrigues CoelhoManuel Rodrigues CoelhoManuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón....
becomes organist of Badajoz CathedralBadajoz CathedralThe Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist of Badajoz is a Roman Catholic cathedral church in Badajoz, Extremadura, western Spain. Since 1994, together with the Co-cathedral of Saint Mary Major of Mérida, it is the seat of the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz.-History:After the conquest of...
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Births
- January 31
- Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and MeistersingerMeistersingerA Meistersinger was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the most part.-Guilds:...
- Giulio Cesare MonteverdiGiulio Cesare MonteverdiGiulio Cesare Monteverdi was an Italian composer and organist; he was the younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi.Giulio Cesare Monteverdi was born in Cremona where he was baptised on 31 January 1573. In 1600 he held the position of organist of Mantua Cathedral for a brief time. In August 1602 he...
(baptized), Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
- Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
- February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
- July 19 (baptized) – Inigo JonesInigo JonesInigo Jones is the first significant British architect of the modern period, and the first to bring Italianate Renaissance architecture to England...
, English stage designer and architect (died 1652) - date unknown
- Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
- Benedikt Faber, German composer
- Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
- Alessandro StriggioAlessandro Striggio (ii)Alessandro Striggio the Younger was an Italian librettist, the son of the composer Alessandro Striggio. The younger Striggio is most famous for his association with the composer Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's first opera Orfeo , a landmark in the history of the genre,...
the younger, Italian composer
- probable - Géry de GhersemGéry de GhersemGéry de Ghersem was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active both in Spain at the court of Philip II and Philip III, and in his native Netherlands...
, Flemish composer and singer (died 1630)
Deaths
- March 15 (or earlier) – Christopher TyeChristopher TyeChristopher Tye was an English composer and organist, who studied at Cambridge University and in 1545 became a Doctor of Music both there and at Oxford.He was choirmaster of Ely Cathedral from about 1543 and also organist there from 1559...
, English composer (born c1505) - November 17 – Joannes Pionnier, French composer
- December 7 – John Thorne, English composer and poet
- December 27–December 31 – Firmin LebelFirmin LebelFirmin Lebel was a French composer and choir director of the Renaissance, active in Rome. While relatively little of his music survives, he was notable as one of the likely teachers of Palestrina....
, French chorus director and composer - date unknown
- Johannes Claux, Flemish composer
- Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
- Gislain Manilius, Flemish music printer
- Pierre Phalèse the ElderPierre Phalèse the ElderPierre Phalèse the Elder was an important Flemish music editor and engraver of the sixteenth century....
, Flemish music publisher
- probable - Alfonso dalla ViolaAlfonso dalla ViolaAlfonso dalla Viola was an Italian composer and instrumentalist of the Renaissance. He was the principal composer at the Este court in Ferrara for about four decades in the middle sixteenth century, and was renowned as a player of several instruments, including the viola d'arco...
, Italian composer and instrumentalist