1550 in music

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1550 in music involved some significant compositions.

Contents

1 Events
2 Publications
3 Classical music
4 Births

Events

none listed

Publications

1550: Adrian Willaert – Salmi spezzati, a collection of antiphonal polychoral sacred music

Classical music

Births

1550: July 3 – Jacobus Gallus, late Renaissance Czech composer of Slovene origin (d. 1591)
1550: December 6 (baptised) – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (died 1605)
1550: probable – John Mundy, English composer and organist (d. 1630), son of composer William Mundy
1550: probable – Sebastian Raval, Spanish composer (died 1604)