1587 in music

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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 [it]
- 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
Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo – (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)
September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)
November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)
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

^ 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).
^ 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).

[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).

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