1580 – 1590s

Events in the 1580s 5

• 1510 – 1586 Andrea Gabrieli Venetian Renaissance composer Andrea Gabrieli was organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice and a leading composer of sacred and secular music. His ceremonial works for multiple choirs established the Venetian grand style.
• 1555 – 1580 Alonso Lobo Spanish Renaissance composer Alonso Lobo was a leading Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred polyphony whose masses and motets were performed at Seville Cathedral and widely admired.
• 1583 – 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi Italian keyboard composer Girolamo Frescobaldi was the greatest keyboard composer of the early Baroque period. His toccatas, ricercars and fantasias transformed the possibilities of keyboard music.
• 1583 – 1625 Orlando Gibbons English Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons was the foremost English composer of his generation whose anthems, fantasias and keyboard music represent the pinnacle of late English Renaissance polyphony.
• 1587 – 1629 Shah Abbas the Great The Safavid empire at its zenith; Isfahan rebuilt Shah Abbas I brought the Safavid Empire to its peak, reforming the army, driving back the Ottomans and Uzbeks, and making his capital Isfahan one of the most beautiful cities in the world — "Isfahan, half the world" — with its great square, mosques and bridges.