1603 in music

The year 1603 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Orlando Gibbons becomes a member of the Chapel Royal.^[1]
• Giovanni Artusi attacks the "crudities" and "licence" in the works of Claudio Monteverdi.
• Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia leaves his post as organist of Huesca Cathedral to become maestro de música at La Seo Cathedral in Saragossa.

Publications

• Ascanio Mayone – Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, keyboard music
• Claudio Monteverdi – Il quatro libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Ser.mo Sig.r Duca di Mantova (fourth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice

Classical music

• Carlo Gesualdo – Sacrarum cantionum liber primus
• Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum

Opera

• none listed

Births

• March 18 – King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and writer on music (died 1656)
• November – Francesco Foggia, composer (died 1688)
• date unknown
  • Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)
  • William Smith, liturgical composer (died 1645)
• probable – Benedetto Ferrari, composer and theorbo player (died 1681)

Deaths

• June – Baldassare Donato, composer and singer (born 1525-1530)
• July 4 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (born 1521)
• August 2 – Rinaldo dall'Arpa, composer, singer and harpist
• August 16 – Cardinal Silvio Antoniani, amateur musician (born 1540)
• September 25 - Stefano Felis, Neapolitan composer and music teacher (born c.1538)
• October 23 - Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (born 1537)
• date unknown - Ambrosio Cotes, Spanish composer (born c.1550)

References

1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 301. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.