1581 in music
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- Ginés Pérez de la ParraGinés Pérez de la ParraGinés Pérez de la Parra , also known as Juan Ginés Pérez, was a Spanish Valencian composer during the Renaissance. He was born in Orihuela, a city in what is now the province of Alicante...
becomes composer and musical director at Orihuela cathedral. - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri becomes maestro di cappella of Cremona cathedral.
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- Luca MarenzioLuca MarenzioLuca Marenzio was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi...
– Second book of madrigals a5 - Philippe de MontePhilippe de MontePhilippe de Monte , sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time...
– Fourth book of madrigals a4
Other
- Fabritio CarosoFabritio CarosoFabritio Caroso da Sermoneta was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630...
– Il Ballerino, Italian dance manual, containing much dance music - Vincenzo GalileiVincenzo GalileiVincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and of the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei...
– Dialogo della musica antica, et della moderna (Dialogue Concerning Ancient and Modern Music)
Deaths
- May 7 - Alexander UtendalAlexander UtendalAlexander Utendal was a Flemish composer.-Life:Utendal was a native of Ghent, nowadays a Belgian city, but at the time part of Flanders and the Netherlands which were part of the Holy Roman Empire. Like many Flemish musicians and composers of his time, he served the Imperial family, the Habsburgs...
, composer (b. 1543/45) - date unknown – Joachim Thibault de CourvilleJoachim Thibault de CourvilleJoachim Thibault de Courville was a French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre, of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of poet Jean Antoine de Baïf, and with Baïf was the co-founder of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which attempted to re-create the storied ethical...
, French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre