1558 in music

Events

• April – Clemens Stephani is appointed Kantor at the Lateinschule in Eger.
• 9 August – Annibale Zoilo joins the Cappella Giulia in Rome
• October – Nicolas de La Grotte marries Marie Cipran de St. Cloud
• Orlande de Lassus marries Regina Wäckinger, the daughter of a Bavarian court official, in Munich.

Bands formed

• Messina Cathedral cappella

Publications

Music

• Paolo Aretino – for five to eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Cyprian Bazylik
• for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• Psalm 79. for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• Psalm 127. for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• Psalm 129. for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
• Simon Boyleau – Second book of madrigals and canzonas for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni & Cesare Pozzo)
• Pierre Cadéac – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Pierre Certon
• (Requiem mass) for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jacob Clemens non Papa – Seventh book of masses: for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of ricercars for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
• Claude Goudimel – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Clément Janequin – for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jacobus de Kerle – (Hymns for the whole year following the rite of the Holy Roman Church, and a Magnificat) for four and five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
• Jean Maillard – for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jan Nasco – First book of for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giaches de Wert –

Theory

• Jan Blahoslav – , published in Olomouc, the first book on music theory in Czech
• Gioseffo Zarlino – (Harmonic Foundations)

Births

• date unknown – Blasius Ammon, Franciscan friar, singer and composer (d. 1590)
• probable – Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist (d. 1617)

Deaths

• July – Georgius Macropedius, dramatist and composer (b. c. 1475; possibly plague)
• November – Hugh Aston, composer (b. c. 1485)
• December – John Sheppard, singer and composer (b. c. 1515; possibly influenza)
• December 29 – Hermann Finck, composer (b. 1527)
• date unknown – Clément Janequin, composer (b. c. 1485)

References