1552 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.

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Events

• Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.[1]

Publications

Music

• Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
• Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
• Bálint Bakfark – 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 – Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
• Claude Le Jeune – 4 chansons

Theory

• Adrianus Petit Coclico – Compendium musices (Musical compendium)

Births

• December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (died before 1607)
• date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (died c.1620)

Deaths

• January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer
• January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (born 1479)
• February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (born c.1500)

References

1. 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).