1568 in music

Events

• Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
• Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
• Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
• Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

Publications

• Giovanni Animuccia – Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis
• Joachim a Burck – Die deutsche Passion
• Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for four voices, the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
• Pierre Certon – Missa Christus resurgens for four voices
• Baldassare Donato – Second book of madrigals for four voices
• Vincenzo Galilei – Fronimo Dialogo, an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.
• Paolo Isnardi
• *Masses for five voices
• *First book of madrigals for five voices
• Orlande de Lassus – Selectissimae cantiones for four, five, six, and more voices
• Claudio Merulo – Messe d'intavolatura d'organo, book four, a collection of masses arranged for organ
• Francesco Portinaro
• *Le vergine for six voices
• *Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices
• Cipriano de Rore
• *Gli amorosi concenti, a posthumous collection of madrigals
• *Il quinto libro de madrigali, posthumous second, expanded edition

Births

• February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer
• September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer
• date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer

Deaths

• June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture
• October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
• November 12 – Georg Forster, composer