1552 in music

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.

Publications

Music

• Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
• Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
• Bálint Bakfark – (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 – for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
• Hans Gerle – (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
• Claude Goudimel – for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
• Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire)
• Claude Le Jeune – 4
• Guillaume de Morlaye
• First book of lute tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
• Fourth book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
• Diego Pisador – (Salamanca: Diego Pisador), a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers

Theory

• Adrianus Petit Coclico – (Musical compendium)

Births

• December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (d. before 1607)
• date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (d. c. 1620)

Deaths

• January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495).
• January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479)
• February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)

References