1552 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.

Events Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.Peter Aston, "Thorne, John", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

Publications Music Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico) Bálint Bakfark – (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Adrianus Petit Coclico – for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings Hans Gerle – (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature Claude Goudimel – for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin) Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire) Claude Le Jeune – 4 Guillaume de Morlaye First book of lute tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat) Fourth book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat) Diego Pisador – (Salamanca: Diego Pisador), a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers

Theory Adrianus Petit Coclico – (Musical compendium)

Births December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (d. before 1607) date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (d. c. 1620)

Deaths January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495). January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479) February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)

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