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1580 in music

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Events

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.

Bands formed

  • The Concerto delle donne is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.

Publications

  • Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
  • Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Anthoine de Bertrand
    • First book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
    • Second book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
  • Joachim a Burck
    • Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
    • Hebdomas divinitus instituta for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • Girolamo Diruta – Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Placido Falconio
    • Turbarum voces (Voices of the crowd) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
    • Voces Christi (Voices of Christ) for three voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
    • Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of responsories for Holy Week
    • Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a setting of Lamentations
  • Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Jacobus Gallus
    • First book of masses for seven and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
    • First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
    • First book of masses for five voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
    • First book of masses for four voice (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • Mikołaj Gomółka – Melodiae ná psałterz polski for four voices (Kraków: Lazarus), a Polish psalter
  • Eucharius Hoffmann – Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art for four voices, part one (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giorgio Mainerio – Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Magnificats
  • Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte
    • Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
    • Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: hiers of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Leonhard Päminger – Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
  • Costanzo Porta – Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum (Book of Fifty-two Motets) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Johann Wanning – Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)

Births

  • July 6 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
  • date unknown – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, German-Italian performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music (d. 1651)
  • probable
    • Michael East, English organist and composer (d. 1648)
    • Thomas Ford, English composer (d. 1648)
    • Adriana Basile, Italian composer (d. 1640)

Deaths

  • January 18 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517)
  • April 1 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (b. c.1510)
  • September 15 – Geert van Turnhout, Flemish composer (b. c.1530)
  • November 30 – Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer (b. c.1530)

References

References

  1. Kidson, Frank. (2008). "English Folk-Song and Dance". Read Books.
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