1571 in music

Events

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina becomes maestro di cappella at the Julian Chapel, St. Peter's, Rome
• Andrea Gabrieli writes the music for the festivities celebrating the victory of the Venetians over the Turks after the Battle of Lepanto.
• Orlande de Lassus visits France at the personal invitation of King Charles IX, who unsuccessfully attempts to employ him
• Tomás Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
• Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, moves to Padua, Italy

Bands disbanded

• Weimar Court Chapel Choir

Publications

• Elias Ammerbach – (Leipzig: Jacob Berwald Erben), the first printed German organ music in tablature
• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of madrigals for four voices with a dialogue for eight (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giammateo Asola – , for three voices, book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons), a book of madrigals
• Fabrice Caietain
• for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
• for six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Francesco Corteccia
• First book of motets for six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• First book of motets for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Ferretti – Fourth book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Jacobus de Kerle – for five and six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
• Orlande de Lassus
• (Motets for five voices, never before published) (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Francesco de' Rossi)
• Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Second book of for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Costanzo Porta – First book of (music for singing with six voices) (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano), a collection of songs with sacred lyrics
• Alexander Utendal –
• Gioseffo Zarlino – , which establishes the primacy of the major mode

Births

• January 15 (baptized) – Henry Ainsworth, author of the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought by the Pilgrim settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. (d. 1622)
• February 15 (possibly) – Michael Praetorius, German organist, composer and music theorist (d. 1621)
• May 17 – William White, English composer (d. c. 1634).
• August 7 – Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music (d. 1627)
• December 27 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music (d. 1630)
• Dates unknown
• Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer (d. 1652).
• Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music (d. 1648).
• Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
• John Ward, English composer of madrigals (d. 1638).

Deaths

• February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1500)
• March 20 – Giovanni Animuccia, composer (b. c. 1520)
• June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist (b. 1502)
• November 21 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer and composer (b. 1523)
• date unknown
• Francisco de Ceballos, organist and composer
• Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (b. c.1499)

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