title: 1587 in music
text: # 1587 in music
  
  ## 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.
  * November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.
  
  ## 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 [it]
     * 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)
  * September 18 – Francesca Caccini, Florentine composer and lutenist (died after 1641)
  * November 3 (baptized) – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1654)
  * 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)
  