This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1551.

List of years in music (table)
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Events

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Publications

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  • Giovanni Animuccia – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antonio Blado)
  • Constanzo Festa – First book of madrigals for three voices, published posthumously
  • Claude Goudimel – First book of psalms for three, four, and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  • Adrian Le Roy – Book of lute arrangements Premier Livre de Tablature de Luth (Paris: Le Roy and Ballard)
  • Tielman Susato – Collection of dance music Het derde musyck boexken alderhande dansyerye was published in Antwerp

Sacred music

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Births

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Deaths

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  • date unknownAlbert de Rippe, Italian lutenist and composer (b. c. 1500)
  • Johannes Wannenmacher, German composer
  • August 12 – Paul Speratus, theologian and hymn writer (b. 1484).
  • November – Juan Alvarez de Almorox, died in Segovia
  • approx. yearJean L'Heritier, composer and singer, died probably in northern Italy (b. c. 1480).