1555 in music

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Events

• January 17 - Italian viol player and composer Peter Lupo joins the musicians' guild in London.
• Palestrina succeeds Orlande de Lassus as maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
• Composer Thomas Whythorne returns to England from travels in Italy and the rest of Europe. The book he writes about his travels is now lost.
• Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona.

Music

• Hermann Finck - Collection of wedding songs
• Jhan Gero – Two books of motets
• Orlande de Lassus – First book of madrigals (a5, published in Antwerp)
• Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals

Publications

• Nicola Vicentino – L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.

Births

• February 25 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (died 1617)
• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer and music theorist (died 1627)
• probable - Paolo Quagliati, composer of the Roman school (died 1628)

Deaths

• date unknown - Mads Hak, Danish composer
• probable – Jacob Clemens non Papa, Flemish composer (born c. 1510)