1560 in music
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Events
- Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua.[1]
Publications
- Ippolito Chamaterò â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano).[2]
- Jacob Clemens non Papa â Tenth book of masses: Missa Quam pulchra es for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously.
- Claude Goudimel â Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
- Giovanni Paolo Paladino â First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier)
- Francesco Portinaro â Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Christoph Praetorius â De obitu reverendi viri Domini Philippi Melanthonis for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon
Births
- January 29 â Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer (d. 1633).[3]
- August 10 â Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist (d. 1629).[4]
- date unknown
- William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period (d. 1630).[5]
- Antonio Coma, Italian composer (d. 1629).[6]
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).[7]
- probable
- Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer (d. 1609).[8]
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (d. 1627).[9]
Deaths
- date unknown â Louis Bourgeois, composer of Calvinist hymn-tunes (born c.1510)
- probable
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, organist and composer (born c.1490).[10]
- Nicolas Gombert, composer (born c.1495)