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Events edit
- Claude Le Jeune comes to Paris and begins to associate with Huguenots.
- Richard Farrant is appointed master of the children of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Publications edit
- Paolo Aretino – First and second books of responsories for Holy Week (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto)
- Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers
- Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
- Gioseppe Caimo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
- Claude Goudimel – Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David nouvellement mis en musique for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), homophonic harmonizations of the melodies from the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter
- Philibert Jambe de Fer – Les 150 Psaumes de David à 4 et 5 voix (Lyon: Antoine de Cercia & Pierre de Mia)
- Orlande de Lassus
- First book of motets for five and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Fourth book of chansons for four and five voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
- Claude Le Jeune – 10 pseaumes de David for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto)
- Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Valerio Salviano & fratelli)
- Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina
- Annibale Padovano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Gioan Paien – First book of madrigals for two voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of Motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Classical music edit
- Philibert Jambe de Fer – Music for the arrival of King Charles IX of France
Births edit
- October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (died 1612)
- date unknown – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (died 1621)
Deaths edit
- October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, composer of the Franco-Flemish School (born c.1510)
- date unknown
- Jacques Brunel, organist and composer[1]
- Purandara Dasa, composer of Carnatic music (born 1484)
References edit
- ^ Walker, Paul (17 November 2020). Fugue in the Sixteenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-19-005620-9.