1587 in music
Events
- January 31 â 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 â Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.
Publications
- Felice Anerio â 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 â Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Ludovico Balbi â for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Bassano â Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Johannes Eccard â 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 â Concerti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
- Vincenzo Galilei â Second book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Jacobus Gallus â , 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 â Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach), his seventh and final book of only madrigals
- Carolus Luython â for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets
- Giovanni de Macque â 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 â 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 â (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
- Jakob Paix â (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Second book of motets for four voices
- Benedetto Pallavicino â First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Compositions
- Adam Puschmann, , a , collected in his manuscript (1588)
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