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.
Publications
Music
- Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
- Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices
- Bálint Bakfark – Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus, a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
- Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices
- Adrianus Petit Coclico – Musica reservata for four voices, a collection of psalm settings
- Hans Gerle – Ein Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch, a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
- Claude Goudimel – Missa Il ne se treuve en amitié for four voices
- Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices
- Claude Le Jeune – 4 chansons
- Guillaume de Morlaye
- *First book of lute tablature
- *Fourth book of guitar tablature
- Diego Pisador – Libro de música de vihuela, a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers
Theory
- Adrianus Petit Coclico – Compendium musices
Births
- December 21 – Richard Day, music printer
- date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher
Deaths
- January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer.
- January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist
- February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor