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Published music Lodovico Agostini - for four voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo) Giovanni Animuccia – First book of masses (Rome: Valerio Dorico & Luigi Dorico) Jacques Arcadelt Third book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Fourth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Fifth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Joachim a Burck – (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch) Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice), edited by Claudio Merulo Nicolao Dorati – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Giovanni Ferretti – for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Giulio Fiesco – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice) Jacquet of Mantua – for four and five voices (Venice, 1567), a collection of sacred music for Holy Week, published posthumously Orlande de Lassus for six, five, and four voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach) Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg) Claudio Merulo – , Libro primo Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Giovanni Domenico da Nola – (The First Book of Neapolitan style villanellas) for three and four voices (Venice: Claudio Merulo & Fausto Betanio) Annibale Padovano – First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of masses (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
Births February 12 – Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician (d. 1620) May 15 (baptised) – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643) December 15 – Christoph Demantius, composer and music theorist (d. 1643)
Deaths January 8 – Jacobus Vaet, Franco-Flemish composer (b. c. 1529) date unknown – Bartolomeo Trosylho, Portuguese composer (b. 1500)
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