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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.^[1]

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

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

January 8 – Eustorg de Beaulieu, French poet and composer (b. c. 1495).^[2]
January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and music theorist (b. 1479)
February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German music theorist, composer, and Kantor (b. c. 1500)^[3]

^ Peter Aston, "Thorne, John", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Hélène Harvitt (1966). Eustorg de Beaulieu, a Disciple of Marot, 1495(?)-1552. AMS Press, Incorporated. p. 26.
^ Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.