1572 in music
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Events
- 20 February â John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.[1]
- William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Publications
- Lodovico Agostini
- Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
- Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
- First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
- Ippolito Baccusi
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Joachim a Burck
- First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
- A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Girolamo Conversi â First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Andrea Gabrieli â First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri â Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
- Paolo Isnardi â Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
- Jacobus de Kerle
- Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Paulus Melissus â Di Psalmen Davids for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
- Philippe de Monte â First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
- Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi â Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Francesco Portinaro â Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
- Johann Rasch published in Munich:
- Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
- Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
- In Monte Olivarum
- Salve Regina, 6 voc.
- Giulio Zacchini â Motetta a 4 vocum
Births
- February 14 â Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
- March 16 (baptized) â Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer (d. c. 1619).
- May 25 â Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632).
- September 15 (baptized) â Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634)
- October 19 (baptized) â Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
- December 27 â Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622)
- date unknown
- Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651).
- Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656)[2]
- Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer
Deaths
- January â Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned)
- February 23 â Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
- August 28? â Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514)
- date unknown
- Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
- Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
- Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)