1563 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • Mikołaj Gomółka leaves the Polish royal court for Kraków.
  • Orlande de Lassus succeeding Ludwig Daser as maestro di cappella to Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria.
  • Nicola Vicentino becomes maestro di cappella at Vicenza Cathedral.

Publications

  • Giovanni Animuccia – First book of laudi (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
  • Severin Cornet – Canzoni napolitane for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
  • Gallus Dressler – Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS)
  • Giulio Fiesco – Madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes four dialogues, two for seven voice and two for eight voices
  • Vincenzo Galilei – First book of intavolature de lauto (Rome: Valerio Dorico), a collection of lute music, including madrigals and ricercars, by various composers
  • Francisco Guerrero – Magnificats in all eight tones (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antonio Barré)
  • Nicolaus Listenius – Rudimenta Musicae Planae
  • Francesco Portinaro – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)

Classical music

  • Antonino Barges – Two motets

Births

  • date unknown
    • John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist (d. 1626)
    • Cornelis Verdonck, Flemish composer of madrigals (d. 1625)
  • approximate date
    • Giles Farnaby, English composer, perhaps from Truro, Cornwall (d. 1640)
    • Andreas Raselius, German composer (d. 1602)

Deaths

  • February 2 – Hans Neusidler, composer (b. c. 1508)
  • August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, composer (b. c. 1515)
  • date unknown
    • Thomas Appleby, church musician and composer (b. c. 1488)
    • Francesco Cellavenia, composer
    • Francisco de Soto, organist and composer (b. c. 1500)
    • Thomas Preston, organist and composer
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