1603. With other artists, William Byrd, Jacopo Peri and Carlo Gesualdo influenced their time (renaissance era / baroque era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “Behold a wonder here” de John Dowland, for example.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 1603 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 40 of these moments for 1603.
1603, from day to day
February
17
Death of Baldassare DonatoThat year: 1603, Classical music, Renaissance Italian composer (born in 1525)
April
26
Birth of Francesco NigettiThat year: 1603, Classical music, composer (dead in 1681)
July
04
Death of Philippe de MonteThat year: 1603, Classical music, Flemish musician and composer (born in 1521)
September
25
Death of Stefano FelisThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian composer (born in 1538)
November
01
Birth of Michel MazuelThat year: 1603, Classical music, composer (dead in 1676)
This was also in 1603
Birth of Caspar KittelThat year: 1603, Classical music, German musician and composer (dead in 1639). Birth of Tommaso MarchettiThat year: 1603, Classical music, composer (dead in 1668). Birth of Natale MonferratoThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1685). Birth of Benedetto FerrariThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1681). Birth of William SmithThat year: 1603, Classical music, English composer from the city of Durham (dead in 1645). Birth of Diego de PontacThat year: 1603, Classical music, Spanish composer (dead in 1654). Death of Giulio Cesare BarbettaThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian composer and luth player (born in 1540). Birth of Denis GaultierThat year: 1603, Classical music, French lutenist and composer (dead in 1672). Birth of Giuseppe AlleviThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1670). Birth of Marco UccelliniThat year: 1603, Classical music, Italian musician and composer (dead in 1680). Death of Jan TolliusThat year: 1603, Classical music, composer (born in 1550). Death of William TisdaleThat year: 1603, Classical music, English composer (born in 1570).
Works (composition or publishing)
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John Dowland (age 40) - Behold a wonder here (Song, lied)
- By a fountain where I lay (Song, lied)
- Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing (Song, lied)
- Farewell, too fair (Song, lied)
- Farewell, unkind, farewell (Song, lied)
- Fie on this feigning, is love without desire (Song, lied)
- Flow not so fast ye fountains (Song, lied)
- I must complain, yet do enjoy my love (Song, lied)
- It was a time when silly bees could speak (Song, lied)
- Lend your ears to my sorrow, good people (Song, lied)
- Love stood amazed at sweet Beauty's pain (Song, lied)
- Me, me and none but me (Song, lied)
- O what hath overwrought my all amazed thought (Song, lied)
- Say, Love, if ever thou didst find (Song, lied)
- The Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires (Song, lied)
- The lowest trees have tops (Song, lied)
- Time stands still (Song, lied)
- Weep you no more, sad fountains (Song, lied)
- What if I never speed? (Song, lied)
- What poor astronomers are they (Song, lied)
- When Phoebus first did Daphne love (Song, lied)
- Come when I call, or tarry till I come (Song, lied)
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Claudio Monteverdi (age 36) - Libro 4: Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Work for choir)
