1587 in music
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Events
- January 31 – Pedro Bermúdez is dismissed from the position of maestro de capilla of the collegiate church at Antequera and briefly imprisoned, for gross negligence and a fight with one of his tenors.[1]
- November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.[2]
Publications
- Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giammateo Asola
- Nova vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
- Le Vergini for three voices, book 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's Vergine bella
- Madrigals for two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Ludovico Balbi – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion nuptiis (Sponsa decora veni) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Concerti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
- Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo – (book of madrigals)
- Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of motets for four voices
- Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Compositions
- Adam Puschmann, Wachtelweise, a Meisterton, collected in his manuscript Singebuch (1588)
Births
- February 26 (baptized) – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher (died 1639)
- September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)
- November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)
- date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer (died 1642)
Deaths
- February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer (born 1508)
- June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer (born c.1544)
- August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer (born c.1540/1541)
References
- Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
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