DINDIA (D'INDIA), SIGISMONDO. — A Palermitan musician who lived in the seventeenth century. He was in Florence between 1608 and 1609 and, from 1611–12, was head of the chamber music of Duke C. Emanuele I of Savoy in Turin; later he served the Este dukes, and from 1623–24 was with Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy in Rome, where he composed the music for the S. Eustachio, to poetry by L. San Martino d'Agliè, and, at the order of Urban VIII, a Mass (1626).
There are 8 books of Madrigali a 5 voci (Venice 1607–1624), and of Villanelle a 3 e 5 (there 1510–12), 5 of Musiche a 1 e 2 (there 1609–23), 2 of Sacri concentus a 2-6 (there 1612), and 1 of Mottetti a 4 (there 1627). His importance as an innovator of secular music and profound connoisseur of religious music is demonstrated by his important Dedicatorie alle musiche in the first book of Mottetti (to Cardinal Federico Borromeo) and in the seventh book of Madrigali (to Maurizio).