1561 in music

Events

• May – Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.
• 20 December – Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in Rome
• date unknown –
• Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.
• Philibert Jambe de Fer sues the Lyonnais printer Jean d'Ogerelles for failing to give his name on the title page of a volume of his psalm settings.

Publications

• Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music
• Jacques Arcadelt – (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jacquet de Berchem – for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
• Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Nicolao Dorati – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Jacquet of Mantua
• First book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
• Second book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
• Jacobus de Kerle
• (Book of Vespers Psalms) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• First book of Magnificats for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Gerardus Mes – (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
• Jan Nasco – Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Christoph Praetorius – for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet

Births

• January 24 – Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (d. 1630)
• July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (d. 1602)
• August – Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (d. 1627)
• August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (d. 1633)
• date unknown – Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (d. 1631)
• probable
• Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (d. 1626)
• Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
• Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (d. 1596).

Deaths

• February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (b. c. 1500/1510)
• date unknown – Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (b. c. 1510)
• probable
• Louis Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (b. c. 1510)
• Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
• Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (b. c. 1500)
• Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (b. 1495)

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