1571 in music

Events

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina becomes maestro di cappella at the Julian Chapel, St. Peter's, Rome
Andrea Gabrieli writes the music for the festivities celebrating the victory of the Venetians over the Turks after the Battle of Lepanto.
Orlande de Lassus visits France at the personal invitation of King Charles IX, who unsuccessfully attempts to employ him
Tomás Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, moves to Padua, Italy

Elias Ammerbach – Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur, the first printed German organ music in tablature
Costanzo Antegnati – First book of madrigals for four voices with a dialogue for eight
Giammateo Asola – Le Vergini, for three voices, book 1, a book of madrigals
Fabrice Caietain
*Liber primus modulorum for four voices, a collection of motets
*Livre de chansons nouvelles for six voices
Francesco Corteccia
*First book of motets for six voices
*First book of motets for five voices
Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices
Giovanni Ferretti – Fourth book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices
Andrea Gabrieli – First book of gregesche et justiniane for three voices
Jacobus de Kerle – Selectae quaedam cantiones sacrae for five and six voices
Orlande de Lassus
*Modulis quinis vocibus numquam hactenus editi
*Livre de nouvelles chansons for four voices
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of madrigals for five voices
Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for five voices
Philippe de Monte – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Second book of canzoni napolitane for three voices
Costanzo Porta – First book of musica sex canenda vocibus, a collection of songs with sacred lyrics
Alexander Utendal – Sacrae cantiones
Gioseffo Zarlino – Dimonstrationi harmoniche, which establishes the primacy of the major mode

January 15 – Henry Ainsworth, author of the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought by the Pilgrim settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620.
February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German organist, composer and music theorist
May 17 – William White, English composer.
August 7 – Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music
December 27 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music Dates unknown
* Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer.
* Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music.
* Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist
* John Ward, English composer of madrigals.

February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor
March 20 – Giovanni Animuccia, composer
June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist
November 21 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer and composer
date unknown
*Francisco de Ceballos, organist and composer
*Bernardino de Ribera, Spanish composer