The year 1623 in music

Music

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involved some significant events.

Events

Drum cymbals are made by the Avedis Zildjian Company. Zildjian cymbals were created in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering. Avedis was given the name of Zildjian (Zilciyân) by the Sultan Osman II[3] (from the Turkish word zil cymbal, dji maker/seller, -ian a common suffix used in Armenian last names) and began an industry in 1623, the details of whose main product remained secret for generations. It became family tradition that only the company's heirs would know the manufacturing process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company

Classical music

• Alessandro Piccinini
  Alessandro Piccinini
  Alessandro Piccinini , was an Italian lutenist and composer.Piccinini was born in Bologna into a musical family: his father Leonardo Maria Piccinini taught lute playing to Alessandro as well as his brothers Girolamo and Filippo...
  
   – Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone
• Salamone Rossi
  Salamone Rossi
  Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque.-Life:...
  
   – השירים אשר לשלמה (Ha-shirim asher l'Shlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical music

Births

• July 6 – Jacopo Melani
  Jacopo Melani
  Jacopo Melani was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Pistoia, and was the brother of composer Alessandro Melani and singer Atto Melani.-Works:...
  
  , violinist and composer (died 1676)
• August 5 – Antonio Cesti
  Antonio Cesti
  Antonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".- Biography :...
  
  , composer (died 1669)
• date unknown – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
  Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
  Johann Heinrich Schmelzer was an Austrian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 1630s, and remained composer and musician at the Habsburg court for the rest of his life...
  
  , violinist and composer (died 1688)
• probable – Dietrich Becker
  Dietrich Becker
  Dietrich Becker was a German Baroque violinist and composer.Little is known about Becker's musical education. His first position was as organist at Ahrensberg. In his second position, in the service of the Chapelle Ducale of the Duke Christian-Ludwig at Celle, he mainly devoted himself to the...
  
  , violinist and composer (died c.1679)

Deaths

• January/February – Mogens Pedersøn
  Mogens Pedersøn
  Mogens Pedersøn was a Danish instrumentalist and composer. He is considered the most important Danish-born composer before Buxtehude.-Life:Early in his career he entered the service of the Danish monarch, Christian IV...
  
  , instrumentalist and composer (born c.1583)
• May 4 – Asprilio Pacelli
  Asprilio Pacelli
  Asprilio Pacelli was an Italian Baroque composer. He was born in Vasciano near Narni in Stroncone, Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy; and died in Warsaw.-Life:...
  
  , composer (born 1570)
• May 5 – Philip Rosseter
  Philip Rosseter
  Philip Rosseter was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager. From 1603 until his death in 1623 he was lutenist for James I of England. Rosseter is best known for A Book of Aires which was written with Thomas Campion...
  
  , musician and composer (born 1567/8)
• July 4 – William Byrd
  William Byrd
  William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
  
  , composer (born 1543)
• November 30 – Thomas Weelkes
  Thomas Weelkes
  Thomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.-Life:Weelkes was baptised in the little village church of Elsted in Sussex on 25...
  
  , English composer (born 1576)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
    Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
    Giovanni Bernardino Nanino was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers...
    
    , composer, teacher and singing master (born c.1560)
  • Tulsidas
    Tulsidas
    Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...
    
    , Hindu philosopher, composer, and poet (born 1532)