1561_in_music
1561 in music
Overview of the events of 1561 in music
- May – Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.[1]
- 20 December – Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in Rome[2]
- date unknown –
- 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]
- Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music[full citation needed]
- Jacques Arcadelt – Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Jacquet de Berchem – 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 – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Nicolao Dorati – 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 – Souter liedekens (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
- Jan Nasco – Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Christoph Praetorius – Melodia epithalamii for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet
- January 24 – Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (died 1630)
- July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (died 1602)
- August – Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (died 1627)
- August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (died 1633)[4]
- date unknown – Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (died 1631)
- probable
- Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (died 1626)
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest (died 1628), the most published English composer in his time
- Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (died 1596)
- February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (born c.1500/1510)
- date unknown – Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (born c.1510)
- probable
- Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (born c.1510)
- Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
- Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (born c.1500)
- Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (born 1495)
- Edmond Strainchamps, "Luzzaschi, Luzzasco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- Richard Sherr, "Merlo, Alessandro [Alexander]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- Howard Mayer Brown, "Jambe de Fer, Philibert", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- "Jacopo Peri | Italian composer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 May 2019.