1571 in music

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Events

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina becomes maestro di cappella at the Julian Chapel, St. Peter's, Rome
• Andrea Gabrieli writes the music for the festivities celebrating the victory of the Venetians over the Turks after the Battle of Lepanto.
• Orlande de Lassus visits France at the personal invitation of King Charles IX, who unsuccessfully attempts to employ him
• Tomás Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
• Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, moves to Padua, Italy

Bands disbanded

• Weimar Court Chapel Choir[1]

Publications

• Elias Ammerbach – Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur (Leipzig: Jacob Berwald Erben), the first printed German organ music in tablature
• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of madrigals for four voices with a dialogue for eight (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giammateo Asola – Le Vergini, for three voices, book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons), a book of madrigals
• Fabrice Caietain
  • Liber primus modulorum for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
  • Livre de chansons nouvelles for six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Francesco Corteccia
  • First book of motets for six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • First book of motets for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Ferretti – Fourth book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Jacobus de Kerle – Selectae quaedam cantiones sacrae for five and six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
• Orlande de Lassus – two books of music in Paris, including some of his most famous chansons
• Gioseffo Zarlino – Dimonstrationi harmoniche, which establishes the primacy of the major mode
• Philippe de Monte – Fourth book of madrigals
• Alexander Utendal – Sacrae cantiones

Births

• January 15 (baptized) – Henry Ainsworth, author of the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought by the Pilgrim settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. (died 1622)
• February 15 (possibly) – Michael Praetorius, German organist, composer and music theorist (died 1621)
• May 17 – William White, English composer
• August 7 – Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music (died 1627)
• December 27 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music (died 1630)
• Dates unknown
  • Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer
  • Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music
  • Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
  • John Ward, English composer of madrigals

Deaths

• February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (born November 1, 1500)
• March 20 – Giovanni Animuccia, composer (born c.1520)
• June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist (born 1502)
• November 21 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer and composer (born 1523)
• date unknown
  • Francisco de Ceballos, organist and composer
  • Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (born c.1499)

References

1. Walter Blankenburg, "Rosthius [Rost], Nicolaus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).