Events
- Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua.
Publications
- Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: Missa Quam pulchra es for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
- Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier)
- Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Christoph Praetorius – De obitu reverendi viri Domini Philippi Melanthonis for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon
Sacred music
Secular music
Births
- January 29 – Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer (d. 1633)
- August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist (d. 1629)
- date unknown
- William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period (d. 1630)
- Antonio Coma, Italian composer (d. 1629)
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).
- probable
- Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer (d. 1609)
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (d. 1627)
Deaths
- date unknown – Louis Bourgeois, composer of Calvinist hymn-tunes (born c.1510)
- probable
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, organist and composer (born c.1490)
- Nicolas Gombert, composer (born c.1495)
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