1555 in music

none December 2025 1555 music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555. Events January 17 – Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London. January – Giovanni Animuccia succeeds Palestrina as it maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia Palestrina succeeds Orlande de Lassus as maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. Composer Thomas Whythorne returns to England from travels in Italy and the rest of Europe. The book he writes about his travels is now lost.Chaney, Edward (1998). The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass Publishers. 0-7146-4577-X. Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona. Music Hermann Finck – Two wedding motets: Amore flagrantissimo, for five voices Pectus ut in sponso, for four voices Publications Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Pierre Cadéac – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Pierre Certon – 50 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Jhan Gero – Two books of motets (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Claude Gervaise, ed. – Sixth book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaignant's widow) Claude Goudimel – Second book of psalms for four, five, and six voices (Paris) Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four and five voices (Seville: Martin de Montesdoca) Clément Janequin First book of fr inventions musicales for five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin) Second book of fr inventions musicales (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin) Second book of fr chansons et cantiques spirituels for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin) Orlande de Lassus Fourth book for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains chansons, madrigals, villanelle, and motets, published in Italian and French First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Jean de Latre – Sixth book of chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse) Jean l'Héritier – it Motetti de la Fama for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Vicente Lusitano – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico) Jean Maillard – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals for four voices Martin Peudargent First book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius) Second book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius for Arnold Birckmann) Dominique Phinot – First book of psalms for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Costanzo Porta First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Nicola Vicentino – it L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks. Adrian Willaert – 'it I sacri e santi salmi (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first printed collection by a single composer of complete polyphonic office settings Births February 25 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (d. 1617) June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (d. 1627) probable – Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (d. 1628) Deaths date unknown – Mads Hak, Danish composer probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (b. c. 1510) References Category:1550s in music Category:1555 in the arts Music Category:16th century in music Category:Music by year