1593 in music

Events

 * 1593–1594 – Diomedes Cato goes with King Sigismund to Sweden, where his fame as a lutenist and composer is large.
 * Johann (Johannes) Christoph Demantius, German poet/composer and music theorist, receives a degree from the University of Wittenberg.
 * English composer William Byrd moves to Essex.
 * Peter Philips moves to Amsterdam, and probably meets Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in this year.

Music published

 * Raffaella Aleotti
 * Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Ghirlanda de madrigali (Garland of madrigals) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Blasius Amon – Breves et selectae quaedam motetae... (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
 * Giammateo Asola – Sacra omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia for six voices (Venice:Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
 * Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of masses for five and nine voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Lodovico Bellanda – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Girolamo Belli – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Giulio Belli
 * Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Second book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Fabrizio Dentice – Lamentations for five voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini)
 * Girolamo Diruta – Il Transilvano (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a treatise on organ playing, including tablatures of original pieces and pieces by various composers
 * Johannes Eccard – Epithalamia (Regina Stephanoque; Frölich zu sein) (Königsberg: Georg Osterberg), wedding music
 * Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Intonationi d'organo, libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously for Andrea
 * Bartholomäus Gesius – Psalm 112 for five voices (Frankfurt (Oder): Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet
 * Ruggiero Giovannelli
 * First book of motets for five and eight voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
 * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Rinaldo del Mel – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Claudio Merulo – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Philippe de Monte
 * Eccellenze di Maria Vergine for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Sixteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Thomas Morley – Canzonets. Or Little Short Songs To Three Voyces (London: Thomas Este)
 * Giovanni Maria Nanino – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes a collection of Offertoria, his last publication.
 * Benedetto Pallavicino – Fifth book of madrigals to five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Music composed

 * Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus began composing Lagrime di San Pietro (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. It would be completed early in 1594, and published in 1595.

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)
 * Lodovico Bassano (buried 18 July), London wind player and composer