| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
Events
- January 1 – Arnold von Bruck retires from his position as Kapellmeister at the Viennese court.
- May - Cipriano de Rore appointed maestro do cappella at the court in Ferrara, a post he held until 1559.
- Jacquet de Berchem appointed maestro di cappella at Verona Cathedral
Publications
- Giulio Abondante - Intabolatura di Iulio Abondante sopra el lauto de ogni sorte de balli, the first of three extant books of lute music published in Venice by Antonio Gardano
- Paolo Aretino – Pie ac devotissime Lamentationes Hyeremie prophete tum etiam Passiones Hiesu Christi Dominice Palmarum ac Veneris Sancti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of litanies
- Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four voices
-
Antoine de Mornable
- Motetorum Musicalium, book 1, for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
- 17 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
- Alonso Mudarra - 'Three Books of Music for vihuela in tablature' (Seville: Juan de Leon)
- Caspar Othmayr – Epitaphium D. Martini Lutheri for five voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
- Girolamo Parabosco – Madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Classical music
- Giovan Tomaso di Maio – Canzone villanesche a 3, book 1
Births
- date unknown –
- September 3 – Isabella Bendidio, Italian noblewoman and singer (died 1610)
- October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, German hymnwriter (d. 1597) [1]
date unknown
- Luca Bati, Italian composer (died 1608)
- Joachim a Burck, German hymn writer, composer, organist and Kantor (died 1610)
Deaths
- Fridolin Sicher (56), organist and composer [2]
References
- ^ A. Schumann (1891). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie / Schneegaß, Cyriacus (in German). Vol. 32. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 92–96. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ^ Marx, Hans Joachim (2001). "Sicher, Fridolin". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.