1602

Events in 1602 3

• 1553 – 1602 Luzzasco Luzzaschi Italian Renaissance composer Luzzasco Luzzaschi was court organist at Ferrara whose chromatic madrigals for virtuoso solo voices influenced Gesualdo and Frescobaldi, both of whom he taught.
• 1557 – 1602 Thomas Morley English Renaissance composer Thomas Morley was the leading English madrigalist who published important anthologies of Italian and English music. His Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke was widely used.
• 1602 – 1799 Rise and fall of the VOC Two centuries of empire Across nearly two centuries the VOC builds a trading empire from the Cape to Japan before collapsing under debt and corruption, dissolved in 1799.