Events

• none listed

Published music

• Lodovico Agostini - Musica di... sopra le rime bizarre di M. Andrea Calmo, & altri autori for four voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
• Giovanni Animuccia – First book of masses (Rome: Valerio Dorico & Luigi Dorico)
• Jacques Arcadelt
  • Third book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Fourth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Fifth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Joachim a Burck – Decades IIII. Sententiosorum versuum celebrium virorum germaniae (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice), edited by Claudio Merulo
• Nicolao Dorati – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Ferretti – Canzone alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giulio Fiesco – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice)
• Jacquet of Mantua – Orationes complures ad officium Hebdomadae sanctae pertinentes for four and five voices (Venice, 1567), a collection of sacred music for Holy Week, published posthumously
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Magnificat octo tonorum for six, five, and four voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
  • Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Neue teütsche Liedlein for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Claudio Merulo – Ricercari d’Intavolatura d’Organo, Libro primo
• Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Il primo libro delle villanelle alla napolitana (The First Book of Neapolitan style villanellas) for three and four voices (Venice: Claudio Merulo & Fausto Betanio)
• Annibale Padovano – First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of masses (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

Births

• February 12 – Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician (d. 1620) ^[1]
• May 15 (baptised) – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
• December 15 – Christoph Demantius, composer and music theorist (d. 1643)

Deaths

• January 8 – Jacobus Vaet, Franco-Flemish composer (b. c. 1529)
• date unknown – Bartolomeo Trosylho, Portuguese composer (b. 1500)

References