title: 1555 in music
text: # 1555 in music
  
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 17 – Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London.
  * January – Giovanni Animuccia succeeds Palestrina as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia
  * Palestrina succeeds Orlande de Lassus as maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
  * Composer Thomas Whythorne returns to England from travels in Italy and the rest of Europe. The book he writes about his travels is now lost.
  * Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona.
  
  ## Music
  
  * Hermann Finck – Two wedding motets:
     * Amore flagrantissimo, for five voices
     * Pectus ut in sponso, for four voices
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * Pierre Cadéac – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Pierre Certon – 50 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jhan Gero – Two books of motets (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * Claude Gervaise, ed. – Sixth book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaignant's widow)
  * Claude Goudimel – Second book of psalms for four, five, and six voices (Paris)
  * Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four and five voices (Seville: Martin de Montesdoca)
  * Clément Janequin
     * First book of inventions musicales for five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
     * Second book of inventions musicales (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
     * Second book of chansons et cantiques spirituels for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  * Orlande de Lassus
     * Fourth book for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains chansons, madrigals, villanelle, and motets, published in Italian and French
     * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Jean de Latre – Sixth book of chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
  * Jean l'Héritier – Motetti de la Fama for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * Vicente Lusitano – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
  * Jean Maillard – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals for four voices
  * Martin Peudargent
     * First book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius)
     * Second book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius for Arnold Birckmann)
  * Dominique Phinot – First book of psalms for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Costanzo Porta
     * First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
     * First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Nicola Vicentino – L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.
  * Adrian Willaert – 'I sacri e santi salmi (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first printed collection by a single composer of complete polyphonic office settings
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 25 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (died 1617)
  * June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (died 1627)
  * probable – Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (died 1628)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * date unknown – Mads Hak, Danish composer
  * probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (born c. 1510)
  