1559 in music
# 1559 in music

## Events

* Cipriano de Rore leaves his post as maestro di cappella in Ferrara when Alfonso II becomes duke.

## Publications

* Filippo Azzaiolo – Il secondo libro de villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Jacob Clemens non Papa
   * Eighth book of masses: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
   * Ninth book of masses: Missa A la fontaine du prez for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
   * First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
* Pierre Clereau
   * First book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
   * Tenth book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Johannes de Cleve
   * First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
   * Second book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
* Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
* Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Philibert Jambe de Fer – Psalmodie de quarante et un pseaumes royaux (Lyon: Michel Du Bois)
* Clément Janequin – Octante deux pseaumes de David traduits en rithme françoise par Cl. Marot et autres avec plusieurs cantiques (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
* Mattheus Le Maistre – Catechesis numeris musicis inclusa for three voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
* Costanzo Porta
   * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
   * First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova

## Births

* date unknown - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (died 1625)

## Deaths

* October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483)
* date unknown
   * Jacques Collebaut, Breton composer
   * Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (born c. 1512)
