1561 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • May – Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.[1]
  • 20 December – Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in Rome[2]
  • date unknown –
    • Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.
    • Philibert Jambe de Fer sues the Lyonnais printer Jean d'Ogerelles for failing to give his name on the title page of a volume of his psalm settings.[3]

Publications

  • Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music
  • Jacques Arcadelt – Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Jacquet de Berchem – Primo Secundo e Terzo Libro del Cappricio for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
  • Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Nicolao Dorati – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jacquet of Mantua
    • First book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
    • Second book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
  • Jacobus de Kerle
    • Liber psalmorum ad vesperas (Book of Vespers Psalms) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
    • First book of Magnificats for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Gerardus Mes – Souter liedekens (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
  • Jan Nasco – Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Christoph Praetorius – Melodia epithalamii for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet

Births

  • January 24 – Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (d. 1630)
  • July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (d. 1602)
  • August – Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (d. 1627)
  • August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (d. 1633)[4]
  • date unknown – Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (d. 1631)
  • probable
    • Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (d. 1626)
    • Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
    • Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (d. 1596).

Deaths

  • February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (b. c. 1500/1510)
  • date unknown – Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (b. c. 1510)
  • probable
    • Louis Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (b. c. 1510)
    • Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
    • Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (b. c. 1500)
    • Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (b. 1495)

References

  1. ↑ Edmond Strainchamps, "Luzzaschi, Luzzasco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  2. ↑ Richard Sherr, "Merlo, Alessandro [Alexander]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  3. ↑ Howard Mayer Brown, "Jambe de Fer, Philibert", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  4. ↑ "Jacopo Peri | Italian composer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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