{{Short description|none}} {{one source|date=December 2025}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see WP:SDNONE --> {{dynamic list}} {{Year nav topic5|1553|music}} This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1553. == Publications == *Francesco Bendusi – {{lang|it|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 – {{lang|it|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 **{{lang|es|Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz}}, 10 December, Rome (Spanish edition) **{{lang|it|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 (d. 1599) *''date unknown'' – Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister (d. 1611) *''probable'' – Leonhard Lechner, German composer (d. 1606)
== Deaths == *February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant pastor, theologian and composer (b. 1515) *October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cristobal-de-Morales|title=Cristóbal de Morales|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=10 December 2025}}</ref> *''date unknown'' **Mateo Flecha, Catalan composer (b. 1481) **Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer (b. 1497)
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