1565 in music

Events

• Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
• 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella 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, also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
• Bálint Bakfark – Harmoniarum musicarum in usum testudinis factarum, book 1, a collection of lute tablature
• Gioseffo Guami – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme
• Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

Sacred

• Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices
• Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentations
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices or instruments
• Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Modulorum for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2, a collection of motets
• *Second book of Sacrae cantiones perornatae for five and six voices
• *Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob for four voices
• Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2
• Paulus Melissus – Historia de navicula vehente Christum et periclitante in mari for four voices
• Diego Ortiz – Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice

Births

• August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
• date unknown
• *Antonio il Verso, Italian composer
• *Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer
• *Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician
• probable
• *Gregor Aichinger, German composer
• *Michael Cavendish, English court composer
• *Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music
• *Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher
• *Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer
• *Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer

Deaths

• August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer
• mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals
• date unknown – David Köler, German composer