# 1603 in music

The year 1603 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* January 1 – Francesco Soriano is appointed maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Basilica, replacing Asprilio Pacelli
* Orlando Gibbons becomes a member of the Chapel Royal.
* 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.
* Asprilio Pacelli is appointed maestro di capella for King Sigismund III of Poland.

## Publications

* Agostino Agazzari
** Sacrae laudes... liber secundus (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
** Sacrarum cantionum... liber tertius (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
* Gregor Aichinger
** Liturgica sive sacra officia, ad omnes dies festos Magnae Dei Matris per annum celebrari solitos (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
** Vespertinum Virginis canticum sive Magnificat... (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
** Ghirlanda di canzonette spirituali, for three voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
* Costanzo Antegnati – Book 14: Missa Borromea, motets, and French chansons for three choirs (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Adriano Banchieri – Fantasie o vero canzoni alla francese for organ and other musical instruments, for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni festivitatibus (Vespers psalms for the feasts of the whole year) for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes three Magnificats
* Sethus Calvisius – Tricinia for three voices or instruments (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg for Jacob Apel), a collection of sacred songs in German
* Giovanni Croce – Devotissime Lamentationi et Improperii per la Settimana Santa for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), music for Holy Week
* John Dowland – The third and last booke of songs or aires (London: Peter Short for Thomas Adams)
* Johannes Eccard – HochzeitLied (Lasst uns singen) for four voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
* Christian Erbach – Mele sive cantiones sacrae ad modum canzonette ut vocant for four voices (Augsburg: Johann Praetorius)
* Achille Falcone – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), published posthumously
* Stefano Felis – Second book of masses for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
* Melchior Franck
** Opusculum for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
** Neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, unnd Intraden for four, five, and six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
** Noch ein ander Quodlibet dem Herrn Marx Weisen for four voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
* Bartholomäus Gesius – Enchiridium etlicher deutschen und lateinischen Gesengen for four voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
* Carlo Gesualdo – Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 2 vols. (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
* Claude Le Jeune – Le printemps (The Spring) for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: the widow of R. Ballard and his son Pierre Ballard), a collection of airs, published posthumously
* Carolus Luython – Selectissimum sacrarum cantionum for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets)
* Ascanio Mayone – Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare (Naples: Costantino Vitale), a collection of keyboard music
* Rogier Michael – Introitus Dominicorum dierum ac praecipuorum festorum for five voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a collection of motets
* 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 for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Pomponio Nenna – Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Cantiones sacrae, published posthumously (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
* Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of masses (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
* Tomaso Pecci
** Musicae modi in responsoria divini officii feria quarta, quinta & sexta, Sanctae Hebdomadae (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
** First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), also contains one piece by Giulio Giuliani
* Peter Philips – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
* Orfeo Vecchi
** First book of Magnificats for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
** First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostini Tradate)
** Cantiones sacrae for six voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)

## Classical music

* Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum, composed for the funeral obsequies of Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, performed on April 22 and 23

## 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)