1553 in music
# 1553 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1553.

## Events

* none listed

## Publications

* Francesco Bendusi – Opera nova di balli for four (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a collection of dance music
* Baldassare Donato – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Jhan Gero – 40 Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Jacquet of Mantua – Motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Vicente Lusitano – Introduttione facilissima, et novissima, di canto fermo, figurato, contraponto semplice, et in concerto, con regole generali per far fughe differenti sopra il canto fermo, a 2, 3, et 4 voci, et compositioni, proportioni, generi. s. diatonico, cromatico, enarmonico (Rome)
* Guillaume de Morlaye
   * first collection for lute
   * Second book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
* Diego Ortiz
   * Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz, 10 December, Rome (Spanish edition)
   * Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone, 10 December, Rome (Italian edition of Trattado de glossas)

## Births

* October 18? – Luca Marenzio (c.1553), Italian composer (died 1599)
* date unknown – Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister (died 1611)
* probable – Leonhard Lechner, German composer (died 1606)

## Deaths

* February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant pastor, theologian and composer (born 1515)
* October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (born 1500)
* date unknown
   * Mateo Flecha, Catalan composer (born 1481)
   * Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer (born 1497)
