1562 in music

Events

• January 1 – Ippolito Chamaterò is appointed maestro di cappella of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona.
• January 18 – The Council of Trent begins a new session, in the course of which it considers decrees relating to sacred music.
• Cristofano Malvezzi enters the service of the Medici in Florence.
• Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder arrives in England and is employed at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• Rinaldo del Mel begins his musical studies at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut.

Publications

• Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica, fourth edition
• Claude Goudimel – Fifth book of psalms for four and five voices
• Jacobus de Kerle
• *Preces Speciales Pro Salubri Generalis Concilii Successu for four voices, setting of texts by Pedro de Soto for the Council of Trent
• *First book of six masses for four and five voices
• Orlande de Lassus – Sacrae cantiones for five voices
• Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigal for four voices

Births

• January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian librettist
• April/May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer
• John Milton, English amateur composer
• probable – John Bull, English composer and organ builder

Deaths

• February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Flemish composer
• October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
• December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
• probable – Perissone Cambio, Franco-Flemish composer and singer