1561 in music
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Events
- May â Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.[1]
- 20 December â Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in Rome[2]
- date unknown â
- Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.
- Philibert Jambe de Fer sues the Lyonnais printer Jean d'Ogerelles for failing to give his name on the title page of a volume of his psalm settings.[3]
Publications
- Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music[full citation needed]
- Jacques Arcadelt â Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Jacquet de Berchem â Primo Secundo e Terzo Libro del Cappricio for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
- Ippolito Chamaterò â First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Ippolito Ciera â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Nicolao Dorati â Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Jacquet of Mantua
- First book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
- Second book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
- Jacobus de Kerle
- Liber psalmorum ad vesperas (Book of Vespers Psalms) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- First book of Magnificats for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Gerardus Mes â Souter liedekens (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
- Jan Nasco â Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Christoph Praetorius â Melodia epithalamii for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet
Births
- January 24 â Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (d. 1630)
- July 17 â Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (d. 1602)
- August â Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (d. 1627)
- August 20 â Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (d. 1633)[4]
- date unknown â Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (d. 1631)
- probable
- Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (d. 1626)
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
- Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (d. 1596).
Deaths
- February 15 â Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (b. c. 1500/1510)
- date unknown â Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (b. c. 1510)
- probable
- Louis Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (b. c. 1510)
- Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
- Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (b. c. 1500)
- Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (b. 1495)