1560 in music
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Births
- January 29 - Scipione DenticeScipione DenticeScipione Dentice was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella , a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle...
, keyboard composer (died 1633) - August 10 – Hieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus PraetoriusHieronymus Praetorius was a north German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras. He was not related to the much more famous Michael Praetorius, though the Praetorius family had many distinguished musicians throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.-Life:He was born...
, north German composer and organist (d. 16291629 in musicThe year 1629 in music involved some significant events.-Events:*Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.*The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.-Classical music:...
) - date unknown
- William BradeWilliam BradeWilliam Brade was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin.-Biography:Little is known...
, German composer of dance forms of the period (d. 16301630 in music- Events :*Giacomo Carissimi becomes the chapelmaster at the Church of San Apollinare in the German-Hungarian College in Rome.*Ján Šimbracký buys a house in Spišské Podhradie.- Deaths :...
) - Peter PhilipsPeter PhilipsPeter Philips was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders...
(c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest (d. 16281628 in music- Events :*November 22 – Girolamo Frescobaldi is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome.* Heinrich Schütz returns to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi....
), the most published English composer in his time.
- William Brade
- probable
- Giovanni CroceGiovanni CroceGiovanni Croce was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School...
, Venetian composer (died 1609) - Lodovico Grossi da ViadanaLodovico Grossi da ViadanaLodovico Grossi da Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants...
, Italian composer (died 1627)
- Giovanni Croce
Deaths
- probable
- Marco Antonio CavazzoniMarco Antonio CavazzoniMarco Antonio Cavazzoni was an Italian organist and composer. All of his extant music is contained in the print Recerchari, motetti, canzoni [...] libro primo, which was published in Venice in 1523...
, organist and composer (born c.1490) - Nicolas GombertNicolas GombertNicolas Gombert was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and best represents the fully developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history.-Life:Details of his early life are...
, composer (born c.1495)
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni