1575 in music

Events

• January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
• Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.

Publications

• Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch, a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices
• Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
• Giammateo Asola – Falsobordone for four voices
• Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Joachim a Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices
• William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur
• Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices
• Giovanni Dragoni
• *First book of madrigals for five voices
• *Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Placido Falconio – Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices, including the first appearance of basso seguente
• Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices
• Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices, also includes hymns
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Patrocinium musices, Part 4, a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
• *Motets for three voices
• Philippe de Monte
• *Fourth book of motets for five voices
• *Sixth book of madrigals for five voices
• *Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices
• Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
• Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius
• Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices
• Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices
• Antonio Scandello – Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden.
• Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
• Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.

Births

• December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer
• date unknown
• *John Bennet, English composer.
• *Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer
• *Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer
• probable
• *Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer
• *Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer
• *Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer
• *Giovanni Priuli, composer
• *Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer

Deaths

• March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer
• April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music
• August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
• probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
• possible – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer