1568 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
  • Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
  • Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
  • Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

Publications

  • Giovanni Animuccia – Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
  • Joachim a Burck – Die deutsche Passion (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
  • Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
  • Pierre Certon – Missa Christus resurgens for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
  • Baldassare Donato – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Vincenzo Galilei – Fronimo Dialogo (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.
  • Paolo Isnardi
    • Masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Selectissimae cantiones for four, five, six, and more voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
  • Claudio Merulo – Messe d'intavolatura d'organo, book four (Venice), a collection of masses arranged for organ
  • Francesco Portinaro
    • Le vergine for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
    • Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Cipriano de Rore
    • Gli amorosi concenti, a posthumous collection of madrigals
    • Il quinto libro de madrigali, posthumous second, expanded edition (first edition: 1566)

Classical music

Births

  • February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer (d. 1643)
  • September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
  • date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (d. 1635)

Deaths

  • June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture (b. 1522; executed)
  • October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1514/1515)
  • November 12 – Georg Forster, composer (b. 1510)
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