1552 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1552.

Events

 * Injunctions of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, silence the organs of York Minster.

Music

 * Martin Agricola – Hymns, collected by Georg Thym
 * Giovanni Animuccia – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Valerio & Aloisio Dorico)
 * Bálint Bakfark – Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
 * Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Adrianus Petit Coclico – Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
 * Hans Gerle – Ein Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
 * Claude Goudimel – Missa Il ne se treuve en amitié for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
 * Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire)
 * Claude Le Jeune – 4 chansons
 * Guillaume de Morlaye
 * First book of lute tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
 * Fourth book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
 * Diego Pisador – Libro de música de vihuela (Salamanca: Diego Pisador), a collection of transcriptions for the vihuela of songs by various composers

Theory

 * Adrianus Petit Coclico – Compendium musices (Musical compendium)

Births

 * December 21 – Richard Day, music printer (d. before 1607)
 * date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (d. c. 1620)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495).
 * January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479)
 * February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)