1553 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1553.
Publications
- Francesco Bendusi – Opera nova di balli for four, a collection of dance music
- Baldassare Donato – First book of madrigals for five and six voices
- Jhan Gero – 40 Madrigals for three voices
- Jacquet of Mantua – Motets for five voices
- Vicente Lusitano – Introduttione facilissima, et novissima, di canto fermo, figurato, contraponto semplice, et in concerto, con regole generali per far fughe differenti sopra il canto fermo, a 2, 3, et 4 voci, et compositioni, proportioni, generi. s. diatonico, cromatico, enarmonico
- Guillaume de Morlaye
- *first collection for lute
- *Second book of guitar tablature
- Diego Ortiz
- *Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz, 10 December, Rome
- *Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone, 10 December, Rome
Births
- October 18? – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer
- date unknown – Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister
- probable – Leonhard Lechner, German composer
Deaths
- February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant pastor, theologian and composer
- October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer
- date unknown
- *Mateo Flecha, Catalan composer
- *Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer