1569 in music

List of years in music (table)

Events

  • January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
  • July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.[1]
  • October – Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.[2]
  • date unknown – A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.[3]
  • Filippo AzzaioloIl terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices (Venice).
  • Ippolito Chamaterò
    • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices (Venice)
    • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice)
    • Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice)
    • Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice)

Classical music

Births

  • 16 November – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist (died 1609)
  • probableTobias Hume, viol player and composer (died 1645)

Deaths

References

  1. David Lasocki, Denis Arnold, and Fabio Ferraccioli, "Bassano: (2) Lodovico Bassano", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  2. Peter Király, "Bakfark [Bacfarc, Bakfarc, Bakfarkh, Bakffark] [Greff alias Bakfark, Greff Bakfark], Valentin", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  3. Barbara Haggh, "Josquin’s Portrait: New Evidence", in From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum natalicium Willem Elders, edited by Albert Clement and Eric Jas (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994): 91–110.
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