1562

Events in 1562 4

• 1490 – 1562 Adrian Willaert Franco-Flemish composer Adrian Willaert founded the Venetian school of composition as maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica. His innovations in chromatic harmony and double-choir writing were highly influential.
• 1490 – 1562 Claudin de Sermisy French Renaissance composer Claudin de Sermisy was one of the most prominent composers at the French royal court whose chansons helped define the Parisian chanson style of the early 16th century.
• 1562 The burning of the books at Maní Yucatán, Mexico Bishop Diego de Landa held an auto-da-fé, torturing hundreds and burning the Maya codices he could find. Four survive worldwide. A literature accumulated over a thousand years was destroyed in an afternoon.
• 1562 – 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Dutch Renaissance composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was the greatest Dutch composer of the late Renaissance whose keyboard fantasias and variations bridged Renaissance and Baroque styles and deeply influenced German organ music.