Events

5 July Events Pre-1600 * 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. * 1316 – The Burgundian and ...

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Annibale Zoilo Annibale Zoilo (c. 1537–1592) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance Roman School. He was a contemporary of Palestrina, writing music in a closely related style, and was a prominent composer and choir director in Rome i ...

joins the Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome as an alto.Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...

and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). * Luzzasco Luzzaschi becomes master of Duke Alfonso of Ferrara's private ''musica da camera'', which was soon to become one of the most distinguished in Europe * Orlande de Lassus is made a nobleman by Emperor Maximilian II, and knighted by Pope Gregory XIII * Formation in

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of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of

musique mesurée ''Musique mesurée à l'antique'' () was a style of vocal musical composition in France in the late 16th century. In ''musique mesurée'', longer syllables in the French language were set to longer note values, and shorter syllables to shorter, in ...

by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and

Guillaume Costeley Guillaume Costeley ronounced Cotelay(1530, possibly 1531 – 28 January 1606) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the court organist to Charles IX of France and famous for his numerous ''chansons'', which were representative of the ...

* First appearance of the air de cour, a ubiquitous type of popular secular music in France until around 1650 * Lázaro del Álamo leaves his post as maestro di capilla in

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* Approximate date of the "Son de la Má Teodora", the earliest surviving example of son montuno from

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Publications

Lodovico Agostini Lodovico Agostini (1534 – 20 September 1590) was an Italian composer, singer, priest, and scholar of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of the Ferrara Estense court, and one of the most skilled representatives of the progressi ...

– First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) *

Giovanni Animuccia Giovanni Animuccia ( – March 1571)Lockwood and O’Regan, ''Animuccia, Giovanni,'' Grove Music Online. was an Italian composer of the Renaissance who was involved in the heart of Rome's liturgical musical life. He was one of Giovanni Pier ...

– Second book of laudi (Rome: Camerali for Antonio Blado) *

Giammateo Asola Giammateo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae; 1532 or earlier – 1 October 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, althoug ...

– First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) *

Ippolito Baccusi Ippolito Baccusi (also Baccusii, Hippolyti) (c. 1550 – 2 September 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in northern Italy, including Venice, Mantua, and Verona. A member of the Venetian School of composers, he had a str ...

**First book of masses, for five and six voices (Venice:

Girolamo Scotto Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505 – 3 September 1572) was an Italian printer, composer, businessman and bookseller of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was the most influential member of the firm of Venetian ...

) **First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) * Lodovico Balbi – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons) * Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of ''Giustiniane'' *

Maddalena Casulana Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music.Thomas ...

– Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history *

Pierre Certon Pierre Certon (ca. 1510–1520 – 23 February 1572) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late development of the French chanson. Life Most likel ...

– (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin), a collection of sacred songs for five, six, seven, and eight voices with one for nine and one for thirteen * Francesco Corteccia – Responsories for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano) *

– (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of French chansons for five voices *

Nicolao Dorati Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513 – February 1593) was an Italian composer and trombone player of the Renaissance, active in Lucca. Although he was primarily an instrumentalist, all of his published music is vocal, and consists mainly of madrigals. A fe ...

– for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), containing settings of poems by

Vittoria Colonna Vittoria Colonna (April 149225 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circl ...

Giovanni Ferretti Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, best known for his secular music. He was important in the development of the lighter kind of madrigal current in the 1570s related to the villanella, and was ...

– Third book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) * Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for five voices (

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: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli), also includes two for six voices and a dialogue for eight voices *

Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero is the name of: *Francisco Guerrero (composer) (1528–1599), Spanish composer of the Renaissance * Francisco Guerrero (politician) (1811–1851), Alcalde of San Francisco *Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951–1997), Spanish composer ...

– Motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli) *

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (also spelled Ingegnieri, Ingignieri, Ingignero, Inzegneri) (c. 1535 or 1536 – 1 July 1592) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was born in Verona and died in Cremona. Even though he spent most of his life w ...

– First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice) * Nicolas de La Grotte – (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) * Orlande de Lassus **5 Masses (filled with sweet melodies) for four and five voices, book 2 (Venice: Claudio Correggio) ** for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg) * Mattheus Le Maistre – First book of motets for five voices (Dresden: Gimel Bergen) * Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of

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es, for four to six voices (

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: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

Classical music

Geert van Turnhout Geert van Turnhout (French: ''Gérard de Turnhout''; c. 1520 – 15 September 1580) was a Flemish composer, who became master of the Flemish chapel (capilla flamenca) in Spain. He was born in Turnhout. He had a younger brother, also a composer, Ja ...

– ''Missa ‘O Maria vernans rosa’ a 5'' *Approximate date –

Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one o ...

– '' Spem in alium''

Births

* June 13 (baptized) –

Paul Peuerl Paul Peuerl (also ''Bäurl, Beuerlin, Bäwerl, Agricola, Peyerl''; 13 June 1570 (baptised), in Stuttgart – after 1625) was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music. From November 1601 he was o ...

, German composer and organist * June 18 (baptized) – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (died 1626) *

August 19 Events Pre-1600 *295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. *43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...

– Salamone Rossi, Italian composer (died 1630) * October 21 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer and music theorist * ''probable'' **

Giovanni Paolo Cima Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi, though not as well known (then or now) as either of those men. Cima ca ...

, Italian composer (died 1622) ** John Cooper (Coprario), English composer (died 1626) ** Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (died 1638) ** John Farmer, English madrigal composer (died 1605) **

Claudia Sessa Claudia Sessa (c. 1570 – c. 1617/19) was an Italian composer and singer/instrumentalist. She was born into the (de) Sessa family, a patrician clan of the Milanese aristocracy. A nun at the convent of S. Maria Annunciata, she composed two ...

, Italian composer.

Deaths

*January –

Pierre Clereau Pierre Clereau (died before 11 January 1570) was a French composer, choirmaster and possibly organist of the Renaissance, active in several towns in Lorraine, including Toul and Nancy. He wrote both sacred and secular vocal music, in Latin, Fre ...

, composer and choirmaster *

March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

– Johann Walter, German composer (born 1496) *September –

Jean de Bonmarché Jean de Bonmarché (ca. 1525September 1570) was a composer of the Franco-Flemish school. Bonmarché was born in Douai. He became dean of Lille Cathedral, then in 1560 master of the choirboys at Old Cambrai Cathedral. On 30 November 1564, following ...

, composer (born c.1525) *''date unknown'' –

Tomás de Santa María Fr. Tomás de Santa María O.P. (also Tomás de Sancta Maria) (ca. 1510 – 1570) was a Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the Renaissance. He was born in Madrid but the date is highly uncertain; he died in Ribadavia. Little is ...

, Spanish music theorist, organist and composer * ''probable'' **

Jean Maillard Jean Maillard (c. 1515 – after 1570) was a French composer of the Renaissance. While little is known with certainty about his life, he may have been associated with the French royal court, since he wrote at least one motet for them. Most li ...

, French composer (approximate date) (born c1515) ** Diego Ortiz, Spanish music theorist and composer (approximate date) (born c1510)

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