1560 in music

Events

Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua.

Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices
Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: Missa Quam pulchra es for four voices, published posthumously
Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices
Orlande de Lassus
*Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices
*First book of madrigals for four voices
Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers
Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
Christoph Praetorius – De obitu reverendi viri Domini Philippi Melanthonis for four voices, a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon

January 29 – Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer
August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist
date unknown
*William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period
*Antonio Coma, Italian composer
*Peter Philips, eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time.probable
*Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer
*Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer