1576 in music

Events

• Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocated to Paris.
• Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

• Giammateo Asola
• *Vespers for six voices, also includes two Magnificats
• *Requiem mass for four voices
• Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices
• Antoine de Bertrand – Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices, a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours
• Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices, contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
• Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices, published posthumously
• Estevan Daça – El Parnasso, a collection of pieces for the vihuela
• Andrea Gabrieli – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Patrocinium musices, Part 5, a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
• *Third book of schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices
• Tiburtio Massaino
• *Psalms for four voices
• *First book of motets for five and six voices
• Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices
• Leonhard Päminger – Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
• Bonifacio Pasquale – I psalms

Classical music

• Luzzasco Luzzaschi – ''Quivi sospiri''

Births

• October – Thomas Weelkes, organist and composer

Deaths

• January 19 – Hans Sachs, meistersinger
• August – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian and Polish composer and lutenist
• probable
• *David Abell, organist and composer
• *Josquin Baston, court composer
• *Jan van Wintelroy, Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster