1572 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.[1]
  • William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

  • Lodovico Agostini
    • Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
    • Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
    • First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Ippolito Baccusi
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
    • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Joachim a Burck
    • First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
    • A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Jacobus de Kerle
    • Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
    • Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
    • Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Paulus Melissus – Di Psalmen Davids for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
  • Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
  • Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Johann Rasch published in Munich:
    • Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
    • Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
    • In Monte Olivarum
    • Salve Regina, 6 voc.
  • Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum

Births

  • February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
  • March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer (d. c. 1619).
  • May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632).
  • September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634)
  • October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
  • December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622)
  • date unknown
    • Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651).
    • Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656)[2]
    • Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

  • January – Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned)
  • February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
  • August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514)
  • date unknown
    • Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
    • Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
    • Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)

References

  1. Michael J. Levin and Steven Zohn, "Don Juan de Austria and the Venetian Music Trade". Early Music 33, no. 3 (August 2005): 439–46. Citation on 439–40, 442–44.
  2. Denis Stevens (1967). Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656. Dover Publications. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-486-21689-8.
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