1558 in music
# 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)
