1572_in_music
1572 in music
Overview of the events of 1572 in music
- 20 February – 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.
- 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 – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
- Paolo Isnardi – 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 – 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 – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
- Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Francesco Portinaro – 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 – Motetta a 4 vocum
- February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
- March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer
- May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (died 1632)
- September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet
- October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
- December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (died 1622)
- date unknown
- Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
- Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (died 1656)[2]
- Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer
- January – Robert Parsons, composer (born c.1535)
- February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (born c1510)
- August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (born c1514)
- date unknown
- Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
- Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
- Christopher Tye, English composer (between August 27, 1571, and March 15, 1573)
- Michael J. Levin and Steven Zohn, "Don Juan de Austria and the Venetian Music Trade". Early Music 33, no. 3 (August 2005): 439–46. Citation on 439–40, 442–44.
- Denis Stevens (1967). Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656. Dover Publications. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-486-21689-8.