1576 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocated to Paris.
  • Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

  • Giammateo Asola
    • Vespertina majorem solennitatum psalmodia for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats
    • Missa pro defunctis (Mass for the dead) for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Antoine de Bertrand – Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours
  • Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
  • Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  • Estevan Daça – El Parnasso (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela
  • Andrea Gabrieli – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Patrocinium musices, Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
    • Third book of schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Tiburtio Massaino
    • Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Giuseffo Guglielmo)
  • Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Leonhard Päminger – Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum... (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg
  • Bonifacio Pasquale – I salmi che si cantano tutto l'anno al Vespro a cinque voci et un Magnificat a otto... (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)

Classical music

  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Quivi sospiri

Births

  • October – Thomas Weelkes, organist and composer (d. 1623)

Deaths

  • January 19 – Hans Sachs, meistersinger (b. 1494)
  • August – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian and Polish composer and lutenist (b. 1507; plague)
  • probable
    • David Abell, organist and composer
    • Josquin Baston, court composer
    • Jan van Wintelroy, Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster
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