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| Year |
Event |
| 1551 |
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina made director of music at St Peter's Rome |
| 1552 |
Johannes Cochlaeus, German musical theorist, dies |
| 1553 |
Johann Eccard, German composer, born |
| 1553 |
Luca Marencio, Italian composer, born |
| 1553 |
The violin in its present form begins to develop |  |
| 1554 |
Palestrina's first Book of Masses, dedicated to Pope Julius III |
| 1555 |
Bartolomaus Gese, German composer, born |
| 1556 |
Orlando di Lasso publishes his first book of motets |
| 1557 |
Giovanni Gabrielli, Italian composer, born |
| 1557 |
Thomas Morley, English composer and theorist born |
| 1558 |
Gioseffo Zarlino, "Institutioni harmoniche" definitions of modern major scales and minor scales. |
| 1559 |
Jachet da Mantova, French composer dies. |
| 1560 |
Orlando di Lasso made court Kapellmeister in Munich |
| 1561 |
Louis Bourgeois dies. |
| 1561 |
Jacopo Peri, Italian composer, born |
| 1562 |
Gasparo Bertolotti da Salo moves to Brescia to become first great Italian violin maker. |
| 1562 |
John Bull, English organist and composer,born |
| 1562 |
Jan Sweelinck, Dutch composer and organist, born. |
| 1562 |
Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer, dies |
| 1563 |
William Byrd made organist at Lincoln Cathedral |
| 1564 |
One of Andrea Amati's first violins made |
| 1564 |
Lodvico Grossi Viadana, Italian composer, born. |  |
| 1565 |
Cyprien de Rore, Dutch composer dies |
| 1565 |
Palestrina:"Missa Papae Marcelli" |
| 1566 |
Richard Edwards, English composer and poet, dies. |
| 1566 |
Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer, dies |
| 1567 |
Waclaw of Szamotuli, Polish composer, dies |
| 1568 |
William Whytbroke, English cleric and composer, dies |
| 1569 |
Thomas Caustun, English composer dies |
| 1570 |
Johann Walther dies. |
| 1570 |
Earliest known music festival to honor St Cecilia, in Normandy |
| 1570 |
Culminating point of vocal polyphonic a cappella style (Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso) |
| 1571 |
Frecesco di Bernardo Corteccia dies. |
| 1571 |
Andrea Gabrieli:"Canzoni alla Francese" |
| 1571 |
Michael Praetorius, German composer and author, born |
| 1572 |
William Byrd and Thomas Tallis organists at the Chapel Royal |
| 1572 |
"Il Re" one of the earliest cellos by Andrea Amati of Cremona |
| 1573 |
Orlando di Lasso:"Patrocinium musices" |
| 1574 |
Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian singer and composer dies |
| 1575 |
William Byrd and Thomas Tallis:"Cantiones sacrae,"34 motets published |
| 1575 |
Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer born |
| 1576 |
Balint Bakfark dies. |
| 1576 |
Tomas Luis Victoria:"Liber primus" masses and canticles |
| 1577 |
Jakob Meiland, German composer, dies |  |
| 1577 |
Mattheus Le Maistre, Walloon composer dies |
| 1578 |
Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, dies |
| 1580 |
English folk tune "Greensleeves" mentioned for the first time |
| 1580 |
Jan Sweelinck made organist at Dude Kerk, Amsterdam |
| 1581 |
Coroso:"Il Ballerino," treatise on dance technique published |
| 1581 |
"Ballet comique de la Reyne" by Balthazar de Beaujoyeux given at French court |
| 1581 |
Vincenzo Galilei:"Dialogo della musica antica e moderna" published |
| 1581 |
"Geuzenlied Boek," an anthology of Dutch songs, including nathional anthem "Wilhelmus van Nassauwe" |
| 1582 |
Gregorio Allegri, Italian tenor singer and composer born |
| 1583 |
Ihan Gero, Flemish Composer, dies. |
| 1583 |
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian organist and composer born |
| 1583 |
Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer, born |
| 1584 |
Pietro Vinci, Italian composer dies |
| 1585 |
Heinrich Schutz, German composer, born |
| 1585 |
Thomas Tallis, English composer, dies |
| 1586 |
Johann Hermann Schein, German composer born |
| 1587 |
Monterverdi:first book of Madrigals published |
| 1587 |
Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer born |
| 1587 |
Zeminoth Israel publishes an early collection of Jewish songs |
| 1588 |
William Byrd:"Psalms Sonets and songs of sadnes and Pietie" |
| 1588 |
Nicholas Yonge"Musica Transalpina", 57 madrigals published in London |
| 1589 |
Thoinot Arbeau publishes "Orchesographie" ealry treatise on dancing with several dance tunes |
| 1589 |
William Byrd:"Songes of Sundrie Natures" |
| 1590 |
Emilio de' Cavalieri:"Il Satiro",Pastoral fable |  |
| 1591 |
Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lutanist and composer, father of Galileo Galilei, dies |
| 1591 |
Lodovico Zacconi:"Prattica di musica" original addition |
| 1592 |
Monteverdi publishes third book of madrigals |
| 1593 |
Paolo Agostini, Italian composer, born |
| 1594 |
Elizabeth I sends a Thomas Dallam organ to the sultan of Turkey |
| 1594 |
Orlando di Lasso, Flemish composer, dies |
| 1594 |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies |
| 1594 |
"Dafne" by Jacopo Peri, first opera. |
| 1595 |
John Wilson, English singer and composer, born |
| 1596 |
Giaches de Wert, Dutch composer, dies |
| 1596 |
Nicola Amati, the eminant of all the Amati family is born |
| 1596 |
Lodovico Zacconi:"Practtica di musica,"reprinted from the original edition |
| 1597 |
Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach German composer and organist dies |
| 1597 |
John Dowland:"First Book of Songes" |
| 1597 |
Thomas Morley:"A Plaine and Easie Introduction fo Practicall Musick" |
| 1597 |
Orazio Vecchi "L'Amfiparnasso," Modena |
| 1598 |
Johann Cruger, German composer, born |
| 1599 |
Luca Marencio, Italian composer, dies |
| 1600 |
Giulio Caccini:"Euridice," opera |
| 1600 |
Sethus Calvisius begins his "Exercitationes musicae duae," first history of music (finished in 1611) |
| 1600 |
Emilio de Cavelieri's opera "La Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo" published |
| 1600 |
Harps first added to orchestras |
| 1600 |
Thomas Morley:"First book of Ayres" |
| 1600 |
Jacopo Peri:"Euridice" opera |
| 1600 |
Recorder (also known as flute-a bec) becomes popular in England |
Music History Timeline - 1551 to 1600
