1573 in music
Events
Publications
- Giammateo Asola – Completorium per totum annum quatuorque illae Beatae Virginis antiphonae quae in fine pro anni tempore secundum Roman curia for six voices
- Joachim a Burck – Sacrae cantiones plane novae for six voices
- Ippolito Chamaterò – Psalms for eight voices
- Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Salmi di David profeta con tre Magnificat for five, six, and eight voices
- Giovanni Ferretti – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of masses for five and eight voices
- Paolo Isnardi – Masses for four voices
- Jacobus de Kerle
- *Liber modulorum sacrorum for four, five, and six voices
- *Book of motets for four and five voices, also includes a Te Deum for six voices
- Orlande de Lassus
- *Patrocinium musices, part 1, a collection of motets
- *Moduli for six, seven, and twelve voices
- *Viersprachendruck for four voices, containing six pieces each in Latin, German, French, and Italian
- Claudio Merulo – First book of masses for five voices
- Philippe de Monte – Second book of motets for five voices
- Annibale Padovano – First book of masses for five voices
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of motets for five, six, and eight voices
- Leonhard Päminger – two collections of motets published posthumously in Nuremberg by his sons
- Costanzo Porta – Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Cipriano de Rore – ''Sacrae cantiones''
Births
- January 31
- *Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
- *Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi.
- February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
- July 19 – Inigo Jones, English stage designer and architect
- date unknown
- *Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
- *Benedikt Faber, German composer
- *Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
- *Alessandro Striggio the younger, Italian composer.
- probable – Géry de Ghersem, Flemish composer and singer
- * Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli, Italian composer.
Deaths