1550 in music

List of years in music (table)
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1550 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events

• none listed

Publications

• 1550: Adrian Willaert – Salmi spezzati, a collection of antiphonal polychoral sacred music

Births

• 1550: July 3 – Jacobus Gallus, late Renaissance Czech composer of Slovene origin (died 1591)
• 1550: December 6 (baptised) – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (died 1605)
• 1550: probable – John Mundy, English composer and organist (died 1630), son of composer William Mundy
• 1550: probable – Sebastian Raval, Spanish composer (died 1604)

Deaths