title: 1558 in music
text: # 1558 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * April – Clemens Stephani is appointed Kantor at the Lateinschule in Eger.
  * 9 August – Annibale Zoilo joins the Cappella Giulia in Rome
  * October – Nicolas de La Grotte marries Marie Cipran de St. Cloud
  * Orlande de Lassus marries Regina Wäckinger, the daughter of a Bavarian court official, in Munich.
  
  ## Bands formed
  
  * Messina Cathedral cappella
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Music
  
  * Paolo Aretino – Li madrigali for five to eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * Cyprian Bazylik
     * Nabożna piosnka a obiecna modlitwa człowieka krześciańskiego do Syna Bożego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
     * Pieśń nowa w ktorej jest dziękowanie Panu Bogu wszechmogącemu ze malutkim i prostakom raczył objawić tajemnice Krolestwa swego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
     * Pieśń o niebezpieczeństwie żywota csłowieczego (Wspominając początek żywota naszego) for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
     * Psalm 79. Deus venerunt gentes in haereditatem tuam for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
     * Psalm 127. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
     * Psalm 129. De profundis clamavi ad te Domine for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
  * Simon Boyleau – Second book of madrigals and canzonas for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni & Cesare Pozzo)
  * Pierre Cadéac – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Pierre Certon
     * Missa pro defunctis (Requiem mass) for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
     * Missa Le temps qui court for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
     * 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jacob Clemens non Papa – Seventh book of masses: Missa Languir my fault for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  * Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of ricercars for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
  * Claude Goudimel – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Clément Janequin – Proverbes de Salomon for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jacobus de Kerle – Hymni totius anni secundum ritum Sanctae Rom. Eccl. et Magnificat (Hymns for the whole year following the rite of the Holy Roman Church, and a Magnificat) for four and five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
  * Jean Maillard – Missa super M'amie un jour for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jan Nasco – First book of canzon villanesce alla Napolitana for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Giaches de Wert – Il secondo libro delle muse
  
  ### Theory
  
  * Jan Blahoslav – Musica: to gest knjžka zpěwákům, published in Olomouc, the first book on music theory in Czech
  * Gioseffo Zarlino – Le istitutioni harmoniche (Harmonic Foundations)
  
  ## Births
  
  * date unknown – Blasius Ammon, Franciscan friar, singer and composer (died 1590)
  * probable – Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July – Georgius Macropedius, dramatist and composer (born c. 1475)
  * November – Hugh Aston, composer (born c.1485)
  * December – John Sheppard, singer and composer (born c.1515)
  * December 29 – Hermann Finck, composer (born 1527)
  * date unknown – Clément Janequin, composer (born c.1485)
  