1553 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• none listed

Publications

• Diego Ortiz – Tratado de Glosas

Classical music

• Guillaume de Morlaye - first collection for lute

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 priest, 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)