1553 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1553.

Events

  • none listed

Publications

  • Francesco Bendusi – Opera nova di balli for four (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a collection of dance music
  • Baldassare Donato – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jhan Gero – 40 Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jacquet of Mantua – Motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Vicente Lusitano – Introduttione facilissima, et novissima, di canto fermo, figurato, contraponto semplice, et in concerto, con regole generali per far fughe differenti sopra il canto fermo, a 2, 3, et 4 voci, et compositioni, proportioni, generi. s. diatonico, cromatico, enarmonico (Rome)
  • Guillaume de Morlaye
    • first collection for lute
    • Second book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
  • Diego Ortiz
    • Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz, 10 December, Rome (Spanish edition)
    • Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone, 10 December, Rome (Italian edition of Trattado de glossas)

Classical music

Births

  • October 18? – Luca Marenzio (c.1553), Italian composer (d. 1599)
  • date unknown – Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister (d. 1611)
  • probable – Leonhard Lechner, German composer (d. 1606)

Deaths

  • February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant pastor, theologian and composer (b. 1515)
  • October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
  • date unknown
    • Mateo Flecha, Catalan composer (b. 1481)
    • Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer (b. 1497)
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