1579 in music

Publications

• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for four voices
• Ippolito Baccusi
• *First book of motets, for five, six, and eight voices
• *Third book of madrigals for six voices
• Joachim a Burck – Ein christlich Lied...
• Johannes de Cleve – Cantiones seu harmoniae sacrae for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices
• Nicolao Dorati – First book of madrigals for six voices
• Giovanni Dragoni – Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Placido Falconio – Psalmodia vespertina for four voices
• Stefano Felis – First book of madrigals for six voices
• Eucharius Hoffmann – Vyff geistlike olde Ostergesenge for four voices
• Fernando de las Infantas
• *Sacrarum varii styli cantionum tituli Spiritus sancti, book three, for six voices
• *Plura modulationum genera, a book of counterpoint exercises
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for four voices
• Ondřej Chrysoponus Jevíčský – Bicinia nova
• Orlando di Lasso – Corona di Madrigali
• Giovanni de Macque – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices
• Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for four voices
• Philippe de Monte
• *Missa Benedicta es for six voices
• *Fifth book of motets for five voices
• Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for four voices

Births

• date unknown – John Amner, composer and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral
• probable – Melchior Franck, composer

Deaths

• date unknown – Miguel de Fuenllana, composer
• probable – David Peebles, composer