1569 in music

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Events

• January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
• July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.[1]
• October – Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.[2]
• date unknown – A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.[3]

Publications

Secular music

• Jacques Arcadelt
  • Sixth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
  • Ninth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
• Filippo Azzaiolo – Il terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Ippolito Chamaterò
  • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giulio Fiesco – First book of Musica nova for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini

Sacred music

• Paolo Aretino – Magnificat for five voices, book 1 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
• Joachim a Burck – Symbolum apostolicum, nicenum, et canticum symbolum sanctorum Augustinii et Ambrosii for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of masses for five and seven voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome

Births

• 16 November – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist (died 1609)
• probable – Tobias Hume, viol player and composer (died 1645)

Deaths

• 11 September – Vincenza Armani, Italian opera singer, musician and composer
• 20 September – Agostino Agostini, Italian composer and singer
• date unknown – Hoste da Reggio, composer (born c. 1520)

References

1. David Lasocki, Denis Arnold, and Fabio Ferraccioli, "Bassano: (2) Lodovico Bassano", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. Peter Király, "Bakfark [Bacfarc, Bakfarc, Bakfarkh, Bakffark] [Greff alias Bakfark, Greff Bakfark], Valentin", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
3. Barbara Haggh, "Josquin’s Portrait: New Evidence", in From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum natalicium Willem Elders, edited by Albert Clement and Eric Jas (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994): 91–110.