Events Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua. 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as at St Mark's Basilica, Venice. Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan. Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.
Publications Secular Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals Bálint Bakfark – , book 1 (Kraków: Lazarus Andrea), a collection of lute tablature Gioseffo Guami – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Cipriano de Rore – Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals
Sacred Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni) Paolo Ferrarese – (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Andrea Gabrieli – First book of for five voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Orlande de Lassus for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets Second book of for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Paulus Melissus – for four voices Diego Ortiz – , Venice
Births August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer date unknown Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (d. 1641) Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (d. 1621) Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (d. 1627) probable Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628) Michael Cavendish, English court composer (d. 1628) Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613) Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (d. 1622) Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646) Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1638)
Deaths August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer (b. 1500) mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (b. 1515/1516) date unknown – David Köler, German composer (b. c. 1532)
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