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Events


May – Luzzasco Luzzaschi is appointed assistant organist at the Este court in Ferrara.
20 December – Virtuoso bass-tenor Alessandro Merlo joins the Cappella Sistina in Rome
date unknown –
Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.
Philibert Jambe de Fer sues the Lyonnais printer Jean d'Ogerelles for failing to give his name on the title page of a volume of his psalm settings.




Publications


Il terzo libro della muse, a collection of secular music
Jacques Arcadelt – Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacquet de Berchem – Primo Secundo e Terzo Libro del Cappricio for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Nicolao Dorati – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Jacquet of Mantua
First book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
Second book of messe del fiore for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), published posthumously
Jacobus de Kerle
Liber psalmorum ad vesperas (Book of Vespers Psalms) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
First book of Magnificats for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Gerardus Mes – Souter liedekens (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), a collection of psalms
Jan Nasco – Lamentations for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Christoph Praetorius – Melodia epithalamii for five voices (Wittenberg), a wedding motet




Births


January 24 – Camillo Cortellini, Italian composer, singer, and violinist (d. 1630)
July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer and patron of the arts (d. 1602)
August – Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Spanish monk, organist and composer (d. 1627)
August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera (d. 1633)
date unknown – Juan Blas de Castro, Spanish singer, musician, and composer (d. 1631)
probable
Elias Mertel, German lutenist, composer and intabulator (d. 1626)
Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
Philippe Rogier, Franco-Flemish composer at the Spanish court (d. 1596).




Deaths


February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director (b. c. 1500/1510)
date unknown – Jan Nasco, Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music (b. c. 1510)
probable
Louis Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (b. c. 1510)
Ippolito Ciera, Italian composer
Luis de Milán, Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist and writer on music (b. c. 1500)
Hendrik Niehoff, Dutch pipe organ builder (b. 1495)




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