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1552 music art
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.
Events
Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.Peter Aston, "Thorne, John", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Publications
Music
Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
Bálint Bakfark – la Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Adrianus Petit Coclico – la Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
Hans Gerle – de Ein Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
Claude Goudimel – la Missa fr Il ne se treuve en amitié for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire)
Claude Le Jeune – 4 fr chansons
Guillaume de Morlaye
First book of lute tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
Fourth book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
Diego Pisador – es Libro de música de vihuela (Salamanca: Diego Pisador), a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers
Theory
Adrianus Petit Coclico – la Compendium musices (Musical compendium)
Births
December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (d. before 1607)
date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (d. c. 1620)
Deaths
January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495).Hélène Harvitt Eustorg de Beaulieu, a Disciple of Marot, 1495(?)-1552 https://books.google.com/books?id=1nQyAQAAMAAJ 1966 AMS Press, Incorporated 26
January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479)
February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)Randel Don The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA256 1996 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-37299-3 256
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