1571 in music explained

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^[1]

Publications

• Elias Ammerbach – German: Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur (Leipzig: Jacob Berwald Erben), the first printed German organ music in tablature ^[2]
• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of madrigals for four voices with a dialogue for eight (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giammateo Asola – Italian: Le Vergini, for three voices, book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons), a book of madrigals
• Fabrice Caietain
  • Latin: Liber primus modulorum for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
  • French: Livre de chansons nouvelles 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 Italian: canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of Italian: gregesche et justiniane for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Jacobus de Kerle – Latin: Selectae quaedam cantiones sacrae for five and six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Latin: Modulis quinis vocibus numquam hactenus editi (Motets for five voices, never before published) (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • French: Livre de nouvelles chansons 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 Italian: canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Costanzo Porta – First book of Latin: musica sex canenda vocibus (music for singing with six voices) (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano), a collection of songs with sacred lyrics
• Alexander Utendal – Latin: Sacrae cantiones
• 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)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• March 20 – Giovanni Animuccia, composer (b. c. 1520)^[5]
• June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist (b. 1502)^[6]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Walter Blankenburg, "Rosthius [Rost], Nicolaus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. Book: Willi Apel. The History of Keyboard Music to 1700. 1997. Indiana University Press. 0-253-21141-7. 289. en.
3. Book: Raymond Russell. The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study. 1965. October House. 96.
4. Book: Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy. An Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 1963. Phaidon Press. 70. en.
5. cs2 . Animuccia, Giovanni . 2 . . 55.
6. Andrew C. Minor, "Francesco Corteccia", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.