Events Autumn – Pope Gregory XIII's plans for a corrected edition of the is abandoned due to lack of funds.Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Bernardino Bertolotti becomes a court musician of the Este family at Ferrara.
Publications Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angleo Gardano) Giammateo Asola – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes two Magnificats Lodovico Balbi – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Paolo Bellasio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Antoine de Bertrand First book of for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts by Ronsard Second book of for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Third book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Joachim a Burck for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold (Sacred odes of Ludwig Helmbold of Mühlhausen), book two (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a collection of hymn settings Antonio de Cabezón – (Madrid: Francisco Sanchez), a collection of instrumental arrangements of pieces by various composers, published posthumously by his son Hernando Fabrice Caietain – Second book of for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Ludwig Daser – for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the Passion Johannes Eccard – (New German Songs) for four and five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch) George de la Hèle – 8 Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin) Fernando de las Infantas , book one, for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) , book two, for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Giorgio Mainerio – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Tiburtio Massaino First book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Claudio Merulo First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte – Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Andreas Pevernage – for six, seven, and eight voices (Douai: Jean Bogard) Costanzo Porta – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Classical music Jan Trojan Turnovský –
Births December 2 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer (d. 1640)
Deaths probable – Francesco Portinaro, composer and humanist (b. c. 1520)
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