1587 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 31 – Pedro Bermúdez is dismissed from the position of maestro de capilla of the collegiate church at Antequera and briefly imprisoned, for gross negligence and a fight with one of his tenors.[1]
  • November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.[2]

Publications

  • Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Giammateo Asola
    • Nova vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
    • Le Vergini for three voices, book 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's Vergine bella
    • Madrigals for two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Ludovico Balbi – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion nuptiis (Sponsa decora veni) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
  • Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
    • First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Concerti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
  • Vincenzo Galilei – Second book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Jacobus Gallus – Opus musicum, volumes 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
    • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
    • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach), his seventh and final book of only madrigals
  • Carolus Luython – Popularis anni jubilus for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets
  • Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Luca Marenzio
    • Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
    • Fourth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
    • Fifth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Tiburtio Massaino
    • Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Rinaldo del Mel – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte
    • First book of masses (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
    • Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
  • Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of motets for four voices
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Compositions

  • Adam Puschmann, Wachtelweise, a Meisterton, collected in his manuscript Singebuch (1588)

Births

  • February 26 (baptized) – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher (died 1639)[3]
  • September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)[4]
  • November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)[5]
  • date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer (died 1642)

Deaths

  • February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer (born 1508)
  • June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer (born c.1544)
  • August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer (born c.1540/1541)

References

  1. ↑ Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  2. ↑ H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  3. ↑ Paul Griffiths (2005). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Group. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-14-051559-6.
  4. ↑ Ronald James Alexander (1989). The Secular Monodies of Francesca Caccini's "Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche" Edition and Commentary. U. of Calif., Davis. p. 1.
  5. ↑ Lindsey C. Harnsberger (October 1996). Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions, Composers, Theory, Instrument & Vocal Ranges. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-88284-728-3.
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