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]

Publications

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 (died before 1607)
• date unknown – Girolamo Belli, Italian composer and music teacher (died c.1620)

Deaths

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