1563 in music

Events

• Mikołaj Gomółka leaves the Polish royal court for Kraków.
• Orlande de Lassus succeeding Ludwig Daser as maestro di cappella to Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria.
• Nicola Vicentino becomes maestro di cappella at Vicenza Cathedral.

Publications

• Giovanni Animuccia – First book of laudi
• Severin Cornet – Canzoni napolitane for four voices
• Gallus Dressler – Praecepta musicae poeticae
• Giulio Fiesco – Madrigals for four and five voices, also includes four dialogues, two for seven voice and two for eight voices
• Vincenzo Galilei – First book of intavolature de lauto, a collection of lute music, including madrigals and ricercars, by various composers
• Francisco Guerrero – Magnificats in all eight tones
• Orlande de Lassus – Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Nicolaus Listenius – Rudimenta Musicae Planae
• Francesco Portinaro – First book of madrigals for four voices

Classical music

• Antonino Barges – Two motets

Births

• date unknown
• *John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist
• *Cornelis Verdonck, Flemish composer of madrigals
• approximate date
• *Giles Farnaby, English composer, perhaps from Truro, Cornwall
• *Andreas Raselius, German composer

Deaths

• February 2 – Hans Neusidler, composer
• August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, composer
• date unknown
• *Thomas Appleby, church musician and composer
• *Francesco Cellavenia, composer
• *Francisco de Soto, organist and composer
• *Thomas Preston, organist and composer