1571 in music

1571 in music

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

Publications

* Elias Ammerbach publishes the first printed German organ music, the tablature "Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur"
* Orlande de Lassus publishes two books of music in Paris, including some of his most famous chansons
* Gioseffo Zarlino published "Dimonstrationi harmoniche", which establishes the primacy of the major mode
* Philippe de Monte publishes his fourth book of madrigals, in Venice

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. (died 1622)
* February 15 (possibly) - Michael Praetorius, German composer and music theorist (died 1621)
* May 17 - William White, English composer
* August 7 - Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music (died 1627)
* December 27 - Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music (died 1630)
* "Dates unknown":* Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer:* Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music:* Martin Peerson (born "ca." 1571 – "ca." 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist:* John Ward, English composer of madrigals

Deaths

* June 7 - Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist
* Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (b. c.1499) [see: "in Spanish", Bernardino de Sahagún.]


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