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October 2025
1558 music
Events
April – Clemens Stephani is appointed Kantor at the Lateinschule in Eger.Hans Haase, "Stephani [Stephan, Stephanus], Clemens", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
9 August – Annibale Zoilo joins the Cappella Giulia in RomeHarry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
October – Nicolas de La Grotte marries Marie Cipran de St. CloudFrank Dobbins, "La Grotte [La Crotte], Nicolas de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Orlande de Lassus marries Regina Wäckinger, the daughter of a Bavarian court official, in Munich.James Haar, "Lassus: (1) Orlande de Lassus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Bands formed
Messina Cathedral cappella
Publications
Music
Paolo Aretino – it Li madrigali for five to eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Cyprian Bazylik
pl Nabożna piosnka a obiecna modlitwa człowieka krześciańskiego do Syna Bożego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
pl Pieśń nowa w ktorej jest dziękowanie Panu Bogu wszechmogącemu ze malutkim i prostakom raczył objawić tajemnice Krolestwa swego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
pl Pieśń o niebezpieczeństwie żywota csłowieczego (Wspominając początek żywota naszego) for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
Psalm 79. la Deus venerunt gentes in haereditatem tuam for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
Psalm 127. la Beati omnes qui timent Dominum for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
Psalm 129. la De profundis clamavi ad te Domine for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
Simon Boyleau – Second book of madrigals and canzonas for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni & Cesare Pozzo)
Pierre Cadéac – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Pierre Certon
la Missa pro defunctis (Requiem mass) for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
la Missa fr Le temps qui court for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacob Clemens non Papa – Seventh book of masses: la Missa fr Languir my fault for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of ricercars for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
Claude Goudimel – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Clément Janequin – fr Proverbes de Salomon for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacobus de Kerle – la Hymni totius anni secundum ritum Sanctae Rom. Eccl. et Magnificat (Hymns for the whole year following the rite of the Holy Roman Church, and a Magnificat) for four and five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
Jean Maillard – la Missa super M'amie un jour for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jan Nasco – First book of it canzon villanesce alla Napolitana for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giaches de Wert – it Il secondo libro delle muse
Theory
Jan Blahoslav – cs Musica: to gest knjžka zpěwákům, published in Olomouc, the first book on music theory in Czech
Gioseffo Zarlino – it Le istitutioni harmoniche (Harmonic Foundations)
Births
date unknown – Blasius Ammon, Franciscan friar, singer and composer (d. 1590)
probable – Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist (d. 1617)
Deaths
July – Georgius Macropedius, dramatist and composer (b. c. 1475; possibly plague)
November – Hugh Aston, composer (b. c. 1485)
December – John Sheppard, singer and composer (b. c. 1515; possibly influenza)
December 29 – Hermann Finck, composer (b. 1527)
date unknown – Clément Janequin, composer (b. c. 1485)
References
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