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 for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats (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 – put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's 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 – (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela Andrea Gabrieli – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Orlande de Lassus , Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices Third book of 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 – (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg Bonifacio Pasquale – (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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