1553 in music
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Events
- none listed
Publications
- Diego Ortiz – Tratado de Glosas
Classical music
- Guillaume de Morlaye - first collection for lute
Births
- October 18? – Luca Marenzio (c.1553), Italian composer (died 1599)
- date unknown - Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister (died 1611)
- probable – Leonhard Lechner, German composer (died 1606)
Deaths
- February 4 - Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant priest, theologian and composer (born 1515)
- October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (born 1500)
- date unknown
- Mateo Flecha, Catalonian composer (born 1481)
- Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer (born 1497)