1552 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.
Events
- Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.[1]
Publications
Music
- Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
- Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
- Bálint Bakfark – Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
- Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Adrianus Petit Coclico – Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
- Claude Le Jeune – 4 chansons
Theory
- Adrianus Petit Coclico – Compendium musices (Musical compendium)
Births
- December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (died before 1607)
- date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (died c.1620)
Deaths
- January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer
- January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (born 1479)
- February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (born c.1500)
References
- ^ Peter Aston, "Thorne, John", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).