1559 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Cipriano de Rore leaves his post as maestro di cappella in Ferrara when Alfonso II becomes duke.

Publications

• Filippo Azzaiolo – Il secondo libro de villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Jacob Clemens non Papa
  • Eighth book of masses: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  • Ninth book of masses: Missa A la fontaine du prez for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  • First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Pierre Clereau
  • First book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Tenth book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Clément Janequin – Octante deux pseaumes de David traduits en rithme françoise par Cl. Marot et autres avec plusieurs cantiques, published posthumously
• Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova

Births

• date unknown - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (died 1625)

Deaths

• October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483)
• date unknown
  • Jacques Collebaut, Breton composer
  • Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (born c. 1512)