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1587 in music

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.
  • November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.

Publications

  • Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Giammateo Asola
  • for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
  • for three voices, book 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's
  • Madrigals for two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Ludovico Balbi – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Johannes Eccard – 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
  • Vincenzo Galilei – Second book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Jacobus Gallus – , volumes 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
  • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach), his seventh and final book of only madrigals
  • Carolus Luython – for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets
  • Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Luca Marenzio
  • Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Fourth book of for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Fifth book of for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Tiburtio Massaino
  • for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Rinaldo del Mel – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte
  • First book of masses (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
  • Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio Monteverdi – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
  • Jakob Paix – (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, , a , collected in his manuscript (1588)

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