1554 in music
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Births
- May 20 – Paolo BellasioPaolo BellasioPaolo Bellasio was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. He is generally considered to be a member of the Roman School, though unusually for the group he seems to have written only madrigals....
, composer (died 1594) - probable – Emmanuel AdriaenssenEmmanuel AdriaenssenEmmanuel Adriaenssen was a Flemish lutenist and influential author of Pratum Musicum...
, Dutch lutenist and composer (died 1604)
Deaths
- February 6 – Arnold von BruckArnold von BruckArnold von Bruck was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in several Habsburg courts...
, composer (b. c. 1500) - February 24 – Philip van WilderPhilip van WilderPhilip van Wilder, was a South Netherlandish lutenist and composer, active in England....
, lutenist and composer (b. c. 1500) - September 25 – Richard SampsonRichard SampsonRichard Sampson was an English clergyman and composer of sacred music, who was Anglican bishop of Chichester and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield.-Biography:...
, composer