1587 in music explained

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.^[1]
• November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.^[2]

Publications

• Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Latin: Nova [[Vespers|vespertina]] omnium [[Solemnity|solemnitatum]] [[Psalms|psalmodia]] for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
  • Italian: Le Vergini 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 – Latin: Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Johannes Eccard – Greek, Modern (1453-);: Epithalamion Latin: nuptiis (Sponsa decora veni) 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 – Latin: Opus musicum, 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 – Latin: Popularis anni jubilus 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 Italian: villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Fifth book of Italian: villanelle for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Tiburtio Massaino
  • Latin: Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum 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 – Italian: Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
• Jakob Paix – Latin: Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (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, German: Wachtelweise, a German: Meisterton, collected in his manuscript German: Singebuch (1588)

Births

• February 26 (baptized) – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher (died 1639)^[3]
• September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)^[4]
• November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)^[5]
• date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer (died 1642)

Deaths

• February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer (born 1508)
• June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer (born c.1544)
• August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer (born c.1540/1541)

Notes and References

1. Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
3. Book: Paul Griffiths. The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. 2005. Penguin Group. 978-0-14-051559-6. 435.
4. Book: Ronald James Alexander. The Secular Monodies of Francesca Caccini's "Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche" Edition and Commentary. 1989. U. of Calif., Davis. 1.
5. Book: Lindsey C. Harnsberger. Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions, Composers, Theory, Instrument & Vocal Ranges. October 1996. Alfred Music Publishing. 978-0-88284-728-3. 247.