1587 in music

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Events

January 31 – Pedro Bermúdez is dismissed from the position of maestro de capilla of the collegiate church at Antequera and briefly imprisoned, for gross negligence and a fight with one of his tenors.[1]
November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.[2]

Publications

Felice Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giammateo Asola
- Nova vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
- Le Vergini for three voices, book 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a madrigal cycle, setting Petrarch's Vergine bella
- Madrigals for two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Ippolito Baccusi – Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Ludovico Balbi – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum in sacris totius anni Sanctorum sollemnitatibus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giovanni Bassano – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion nuptiis (Sponsa decora veni) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Andrea Gabrieli & Giovanni Gabrieli – Concerti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), the majority of the pieces are by Andrea, published posthumously
Vincenzo Galilei – Second book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Jacobus Gallus – Opus musicum, volumes 2 & 3 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Orlande de Lassus – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach), his seventh and final book of only madrigals
Carolus Luython – Popularis anni jubilus for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a collection of motets
Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Luca Marenzio
- Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Fourth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Fifth book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Tiburtio Massaino
- Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Rinaldo del Mel – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte
- First book of masses (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of motets for four voices
Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Compositions

Adam Puschmann, Wachtelweise, a Meisterton, collected in his manuscript Singebuch (1588)

Births

February 26 (baptized) – Stefano Landi, Roman composer and teacher (died 1639)[3]
September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)[4]
November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)[5]
date unknown – Francesco Lambardi, Neapolitan composer (died 1642)

Deaths

February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Veronese composer (born 1508)
June 15 – Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi, Italian composer and singer (born c.1544)
August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Venetian composer (born c.1540/1541)

References

Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Paul Griffiths (2005). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Group. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-14-051559-6.
Ronald James Alexander (1989). The Secular Monodies of Francesca Caccini's "Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche" Edition and Commentary. U. of Calif., Davis. p. 1.
Lindsey C. Harnsberger (October 1996). Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions, Composers, Theory, Instrument & Vocal Ranges. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-88284-728-3.

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[1] Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[2] H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

[3] Paul Griffiths (2005). The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin Group. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-14-051559-6.

[4] Ronald James Alexander (1989). The Secular Monodies of Francesca Caccini's "Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche" Edition and Commentary. U. of Calif., Davis. p. 1.

[5] Lindsey C. Harnsberger (October 1996). Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions, Composers, Theory, Instrument & Vocal Ranges. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-88284-728-3.