1572 in music

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Events

• 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.[1]
• William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini
  • Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Ippolito Baccusi
  • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Joachim a Burck
  • First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
  • A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Jacobus de Kerle
  • Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
• Johann Rasch published in Munich:
  • Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
  • Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
  • In Monte Olivarum
  • Salve Regina, 6 voc.
• Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum

Births

• February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
• March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer
• May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (died 1632)
• September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet
• October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
• December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (died 1622)
• date unknown
  • Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
  • Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (died 1656)
  • Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

• January – Robert Parsons, composer (born c.1535)
• February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (born c1510)
• August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (born c1514)
• date unknown
  • Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
  • Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
  • Christopher Tye, English composer (between August 27, 1571 and March 15, 1573)

References

1. Michael J. Levin and Steven Zohn, "Don Juan de Austria and the Venetian Music Trade". Early Music 33, no. 3 (August 2005): 439–46. Citation on 439–40, 442–44.