1576 in music

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