1556 in music
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Events
- Orlande de Lassus joins the court of Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria.
Publications
- Philibert Jambe de Fer - Epitome musical, des tons, sons, et accordz...Violes & violons
Births
- February 21 – Sethus Calvisius, German theorist and composer (died 1615)
- June - Pomponio Nenna, Neapolitan Italian composer (died 1608)
- August 10 – Philipp Nicolai, German pastor and composer (died 1608)
- December 17 - Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, composer and a minister of the Mughal emperor Akbar (died 1627)
Deaths
- March 4 - Leonhard Kleber, German organist (born 1495)
- June 10 – Martin Agricola, German theorist and composer (born 1486)
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