1555 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555.

## Events

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* January 17 – Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London.
* January – Giovanni Animuccia succeeds Palestrina as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia
* Palestrina succeeds Orlande de Lassus as maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
* Composer Thomas Whythorne returns to England from travels in Italy and the rest of Europe. The book he writes about his travels is now lost.[1]
* Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona.

## Music

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* Hermann Finck – Two wedding motets:
* Amore flagrantissimo, for five voices
* Pectus ut in sponso, for four voices

## Publications

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* Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Pierre Cadéac – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Pierre Certon – 50 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Jhan Gero – Two books of motets (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Claude Gervaise, ed. – Sixth book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaignant's widow)
* Claude Goudimel – Second book of psalms for four, five, and six voices (Paris)
* Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four and five voices (Seville: Martin de Montesdoca)
* Clément Janequin
* First book of inventions musicales for five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
* Second book of inventions musicales (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
* Second book of chansons et cantiques spirituels for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
* Orlande de Lassus
* Fourth book for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains chansons, madrigals, villanelle, and motets, published in Italian and French
* First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Jean de Latre – Sixth book of chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
* Jean l'Héritier – Motetti de la Fama for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Vicente Lusitano – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
* Jean Maillard – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals for four voices
* Martin Peudargent
* First book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius)
* Second book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius for Arnold Birckmann)
* Dominique Phinot – First book of psalms for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Costanzo Porta
* First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Nicola Vicentino – L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.
* Adrian Willaert – 'I sacri e santi salmi (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first printed collection by a single composer of complete polyphonic office settings

## Births

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* February 25 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (d. 1617)
* June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (d. 1627)
* probable – Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (d. 1628)

## Deaths

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* date unknown – Mads Hak, Danish composer
* probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (b. c. 1510)

## References

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1. ^ Chaney, Edward (1998). The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0-7146-4577-X.