1558 in music

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Events

April – Clemens Stephani is appointed Kantor at the Lateinschule in Eger.^[1]
9 August – Annibale Zoilo joins the Cappella Giulia in Rome^[2]
October – Nicolas de La Grotte marries Marie Cipran de St. Cloud^[3]
Orlande de Lassus marries Regina Wäckinger, the daughter of a Bavarian court official, in Munich.^[4]

Bands formed

Messina Cathedral cappella

Publications

Music

Paolo Aretino – Li madrigali for five to eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Cyprian Bazylik
- Nabożna piosnka a obiecna modlitwa człowieka krześciańskiego do Syna Bożego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
- Pieśń nowa w ktorej jest dziękowanie Panu Bogu wszechmogącemu ze malutkim i prostakom raczył objawić tajemnice Krolestwa swego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
- Pieśń o niebezpieczeństwie żywota csłowieczego (Wspominając początek żywota naszego) for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
- Psalm 79. Deus venerunt gentes in haereditatem tuam for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
- Psalm 127. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
- Psalm 129. De profundis clamavi ad te Domine for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
Simon Boyleau – Second book of madrigals and canzonas for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni & Cesare Pozzo)
Pierre Cadéac – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Pierre Certon
- Missa pro defunctis (Requiem mass) for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Missa Le temps qui court for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacob Clemens non Papa – Seventh book of masses: Missa Languir my fault for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of ricercars for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
Claude Goudimel – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Clément Janequin – Proverbes de Salomon for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacobus de Kerle – Hymni totius anni secundum ritum Sanctae Rom. Eccl. et Magnificat (Hymns for the whole year following the rite of the Holy Roman Church, and a Magnificat) for four and five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
Jean Maillard – Missa super M'amie un jour for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jan Nasco – First book of canzon villanesce alla Napolitana for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giaches de Wert – Il secondo libro delle muse

Theory

Jan Blahoslav – Musica: to gest knjžka zpěwákům, published in Olomouc, the first book on music theory in the Czech language
Gioseffo Zarlino – Le istitutioni harmoniche (Harmonic Foundations)

Births

date unknown – Blasius Ammon, Franciscan friar, singer and composer (died 1590)
probable – Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist

Deaths

July – Georgius Macropedius, dramatist and composer (born c. 1475)
November – Hugh Aston, composer (born c.1485)
December – John Sheppard, singer and composer (born c.1515)
December 29 – Hermann Finck, composer (born 1527)
date unknown – Clément Janequin, composer (born c.1485)

References

^ Hans Haase, "Stephani [Stephan, Stephanus], Clemens", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Frank Dobbins, "La Grotte [La Crotte], Nicolas de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ James Haar, "Lassus: (1) Orlande de Lassus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[1] Hans Haase, "Stephani [Stephan, Stephanus], Clemens", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[2] Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[3] Frank Dobbins, "La Grotte [La Crotte], Nicolas de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[4] James Haar, "Lassus: (1) Orlande de Lassus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

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