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