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Events
May – Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.Edmond Strainchamps, "Luzzaschi, Luzzasco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
20 December – Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in RomeRichard Sherr, "Merlo, Alessandro [Alexander]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
date unknown –
Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.
Philibert Jambe de Fer sues the Lyonnais printer Jean d'Ogerelles for failing to give his name on the title page of a volume of his psalm settings.Howard Mayer Brown, "Jambe de Fer, Philibert", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Publications
Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular musicJuly 2017
Jacques Arcadelt – fr Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacquet de Berchem – it Primo Secundo e Terzo Libro del Cappricio for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Nicolao Dorati – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Jacquet of Mantua
First book of it messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
Second book of it messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
Jacobus de Kerle
la Liber psalmorum ad vesperas (Book of Vespers Psalms) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
First book of Magnificats for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Gerardus Mes – nl Souter liedekens (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
Jan Nasco – Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Christoph Praetorius – la Melodia epithalamii for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet
Births
January 24 – Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (d. 1630)
July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (d. 1602)
August – Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (d. 1627)
August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (d. 1633)Jacopo Peri Italian composer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacopo-Peri Encyclopedia Britannica 7 May 2019 en
date unknown – Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (d. 1631)
probable
Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (d. 1626)
Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (d. 1596).
Deaths
February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (b. c. 1500/1510)
date unknown – Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (b. c. 1510)
probable
Louis Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (b. c. 1510)
Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (b. c. 1500)
Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (b. 1495)
References
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