1582 in music
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- Lodovico AgostiniLodovico AgostiniLodovico Agostini was an Italian composer, singer, priest, and scholar of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of the Ferrara Estense court, and one of the most skilled representatives of the progressive secular style which developed there at the end of the 16th century.- Life :He was...
– Third book of madrigalsMadrigal (music)A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
, for six voices - Vittorio BaldiniVittorio BaldiniVittorio Baldini was an Italian printer and engraver. He started publishing in Venice, where he was born, and later moved to Ferrara, joining the court of Duke Alfonso II d'Este in mid-to-late 1582, where he was the official ducal music printer...
- Il lauro secco (anthology of madrigals) - 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...
– Sacrae Cantiunculae (Little Sacred Songs)
Births
- May 1 - Marco da GaglianoMarco da GaglianoMarco da Gagliano was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal.-Life:...
, composer (d. 1643) - June 26 - Johannes SchultzJohannes Schultz (composer)Johannes Schultz was a German composer.Schultz was born in Lüneburg, and died in Dannenberg, but little is known of his life.-References:...
, composer (d. 1653) - December 23 - Severo BoniniSevero BoniniSevero Bonini was an Italian composer, organist and writer on music.He was born in Florence and became a Benedictine monk. He studied singing with Giulio Caccini. He served as organist in Forlì from 1613 and held a number of other posts before returning to Florence in 1640 where he was maestro di...
, organist, composer and music writer (d. 1663) - date unknown
- Gregorio AllegriGregorio AllegriGregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
, Italian composer (d. 16521652 in music- Events :*Adam Drese becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar.*Anthoni van Noordt becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel.- Classical music :...
) - Sigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'IndiaSigismondo d'India was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous composer.-Life:D'India was probably born in Palermo, Sicily in 1582, though...
, Italian composer (d. 16291629 in musicThe year 1629 in music involved some significant events.-Events:*Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.*The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.-Classical music:...
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- Gregorio Allegri
Deaths
- 3 or 4 May – Giorgio MainerioGiorgio MainerioGiorgio Mainerio was an Italian musician and composer.-Biography:Mainerio was born in Parma, Italy between 1530 and 1540. His father is thought to have been Scottish given that Giorgio signed Mayner as his family name. During his education he studied music, but he did not immediately begin a...
, Italian composer (b. 1530/40) - date unknown - Pere Alberch VilaPere Alberch VilaPere Alberch Vila was a Catalonian baroque composer and organist. He was born Pere Alberc i Ferrament at Vic in 1517; the nickname i Vila comes from a more notable branch of his family.. Alberch trained in the Cathedral of Vic and later, between 1534 and 1536, in Valencia with his uncle Pere Vila...
, organist and composer (b. 1517)