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