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
• Toms Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
• Blint 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 Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1620.
• February 15 (possibly) - Michael Praetorius, German composer and music theorist
• May 17 - William White, English composer
• August 7 - Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music
• December 27 - Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music
• Filipe de Magalhes, Portuguese composer
• Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music
• John Ward, English composer of madrigals

Deaths

• Bernardino de Ribera, Spanish composer

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