1569 in music

Events

• January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
• July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.
• October – Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.
• date unknown – A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.

Publications

Secular music

• Jacques Arcadelt
• *Sixth book of chansons, published posthumously
• *Ninth book of chansons, published posthumously
• Filippo Azzaiolo – Il terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices
• Ippolito Chamaterò
• *Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices
• *Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices
• *Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices
• *Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Canzoni alla napolitana for five voices
• Giulio Fiesco – First book of Musica nova for five voices, the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini
• Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for four voices
• Philippe de Monte
• *First book of madrigals for six voices
• *Second book of madrigals for six voices
• *Second book of madrigals for four voices
• Costanzo Porta – Second book of madrigals for five voices

Sacred music

• Paolo Aretino – Magnificat for five voices, book 1
• Joachim a Burck – Symbolum apostolicum, nicenum, et canticum symbolum sanctorum Augustinii et Ambrosii for four voices
• Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of masses for five and seven voices
• Sigmund Hemmel – Der ganz Psalter Davids for four voices, a German-language psalter, published posthumously
• Paolo Isnardi
• *Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices
• *Psalmi omnes qui ad vesperas for five voices
• Orlande de Lassus – Cantiones aliquot for five voices, a collection of motets
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome

Births

• 16 November – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist
• probable – Tobias Hume, viol player and composer

Deaths

• 11 September – Vincenza Armani, Italian opera singer, musician and composer.
• 20 September – Agostino Agostini, Italian composer and singer
• date unknown – Hoste da Reggio, composer