1546 in music
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Events
- January 1 â Arnold von Bruck retires from his position as Kapellmeister at the Viennese court.
- May - Cipriano de Rore appointed maestro do cappella at the court in Ferrara, a post he held until 1559.
- Jacquet de Berchem appointed maestro di cappella at Verona Cathedral
Publications
- Giulio Abondante - Intabolatura di Iulio Abondante sopra el lauto de ogni sorte de balli, the first of three extant books of lute music published in Venice by Antonio Gardano
- Paolo Aretino â Pie ac devotissime Lamentationes Hyeremie prophete tum etiam Passiones Hiesu Christi Dominice Palmarum ac Veneris Sancti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of litanies
- Jacquet de Berchem â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Simon Boyleau â Madrigals for four voices
- Giovan Tomaso di Maio â Canzone villanesche a 3, book 1
- Antoine de Mornable
- Motetorum Musicalium, book 1, for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
- 17 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
- Alonso Mudarra - 'Three Books of Music for vihuela in tablature' (Seville: Juan de Leon)
- Caspar Othmayr â Epitaphium D. Martini Lutheri for five voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
- Girolamo Parabosco â Madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Births
- date unknown â
- September 3 â Isabella Bendidio, Italian noblewoman and singer (died 1610)
- October 5 â Cyriakus Schneegass, German hymnwriter (d. 1597)[1]
date unknown
- Luca Bati, Italian composer (died 1608)
- Joachim a Burck, German hymn writer, composer, organist and Kantor (died 1610)
Deaths
- Fridolin Sicher (56), organist and composer[2]
- Hans Ott, music publisher and editor[3]