1576 in music

Overview of the events of 1576 in music

Overview of the events of 1576 in music

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* … 1566
* 1567
* 1568
* 1569
* 1570
* 1571
* 1572

* 1573
* 1574
* 1575
* 1576
* 1577
* 1578
* 1579

* 1580
* 1581
* 1582
* 1583
* 1584
* 1585
* 1586 …

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## Events[edit]

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

## Publications[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Quivi sospiri

## Births[edit]

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

## Deaths[edit]

* 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