1555 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555.
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Events
- January 17 – Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London.
- January – Giovanni Animuccia succeeds Palestrina as 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.[1]
- 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
- Orlande de Lassus – First book of madrigals (a5, published in Antwerp)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals for four voices
- Nicola Vicentino – 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 – '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 (died 1617)
- June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (died 1627)
- probable – Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (died 1628)
Deaths
- date unknown – Mads Hak, Danish composer
- probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (born c. 1510)
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References
- Chaney, Edward (1998). The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0-7146-4577-X.
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