1572 in music

Events

• 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.
• William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini
• *Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei...
• *Second book of madrigals for four voices
• *First book of canons and echo for six voices
• Ippolito Baccusi
• *Second book of madrigals for five voices
• *Second book of madrigals for six voices
• Joachim a Burck
• *First book of sacrae odae for four voices, settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
• *A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices
• Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices
• Jacobus de Kerle
• *Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices
• *Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Moduli for four and eight voices
• *Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices
• Paulus Melissus – Di Psalmen Davids for four voices, a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
• Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus for five, six, and eight voices
• Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices
• Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices
• Johann Rasch published in Munich:
• *Cantiunculae Paschales
• *Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
• *In Monte Olivarum
• *Salve Regina, 6 voc.
• Giulio Zacchini – ''Motetta a 4 vocum''

Births

• February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
• March 16 – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer.
• May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German music patron and composer.
• September 15 – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet
• October 19 – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
• December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist
• date unknown
• *Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist.
• *Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer
• *Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

• January – Robert Parsons, composer
• February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer
• August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. date unknown
• *Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
• *Francesco Londariti, Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
• *Christopher Tye, English composer