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Retrato de Vicentino
Events
- January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
- Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.
Publications
- Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
- Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
- Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
- Giammateo Asola – Falsi bordoni per cantar salmi for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
- Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Joachim a Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones Sacrae
- Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Giovanni Dragoni
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Placido Falconio – Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
- Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
- Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns
- Orlande de Lassus
- Patrocinium musices, Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
- Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Philippe de Monte
- Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
- Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère)
- Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
- Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
- Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
- Antonio Scandello – Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden.
- Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
- Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.
Births
- December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (died 1631)
- date unknown
- John Bennet, English composer
- Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer
- Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (died 1631)
- probable
- Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (died c.1620)
- Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (died 1628)
- Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1651)
- Giovanni Priuli, composer (died 1626)
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (died 1647)
Deaths
- March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (born 1527)[1]
- April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
- July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (born 1505)[2]
- August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
- probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
- possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1511)
References
- ↑ Annibale (Padovano); Annibale Padovano (1994). Il primo libro de ricercari a quattro voci (Venice, 1556). Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8240-4503-6.
- ↑ Charles Henry Cooper (22 March 2012). Memorials of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-108-04394-6.
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