1552 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.
Events
- Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.[1]
Publications
Music
- Martin Agricola â Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
- Giovanni Animuccia â First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
- Bálint Bakfark â Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
- Pierre Certon â First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Adrianus Petit Coclico â Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
- Hans Gerle â Ein Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
- Claude Goudimel â Missa Il ne se treuve en amitié for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
- Jean de Latre â Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire)
- Claude Le Jeune â 4 chansons
- Guillaume de Morlaye
- First book of lute tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
- Fourth book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
- Diego Pisador â Libro de música de vihuela (Salamanca: Diego Pisador), a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers
Theory
- Adrianus Petit Coclico â Compendium musices (Musical compendium)
Births
- December 21 â Richard Day, music printer (d. before 1607)
- date unknown â Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (d. c. 1620)
Deaths
- January 8 â Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495).[2]
- January 10 â Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479)
- February 26 â Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)[3]