1555 in music
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Events
- January 17 - Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London.
- Palestrina succeeds Orlande de Lassus as maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
- Composer Thomas Whythorne returns to England from travels in Italy and the rest of Europe. The book he writes about his travels is now lost.[1]
- Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona.
Music
- Hermann Finck - Collection of wedding songs
- Jhan Gero – Two books of motets
- Orlande de Lassus – First book of madrigals (a5, published in Antwerp)
- Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals
Publications
- Nicola Vicentino – L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.
Births
- February 25 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (died 1617)
- June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (died 1627)
- probable - Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (died 1628)
Deaths
- date unknown - Mads Hak, Danish composer
- probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (born c. 1510)
References
- ↑ Chaney, Edward (1998). The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0-7146-4577-X.