1565 in music

Events

• Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
• 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
• Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan.
• Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.

Publications

Secular

• Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
• Bálint Bakfark – Harmoniarum musicarum in usum testudinis factarum, book 1 (Kraków: Lazarus Andrea), a collection of lute tablature
• Gioseffo Guami – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme
• Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

Sacred

• Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
• Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentationes, Responsoria, Benedictus, Miserere, multaque alia devotissima cantica ad offitium Hebdomadae Sanctae pertinentia (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Modulorum for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
  • Second book of Sacrae cantiones perornatae for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Paulus Melissus – Historia de navicula vehente Christum et periclitante in mari for four voices
• Diego Ortiz – Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice

Births

• August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
• date unknown
  • Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (d. 1641)
  • Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (d. 1621)
  • Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (d. 1627)
• probable
  • Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628)
  • Michael Cavendish, English court composer (d. 1628)
  • Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
  • Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (d. 1622)
  • Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646)
  • Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1638)

Deaths

• August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer (b. 1500)
• mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (b. 1515/1516)
• date unknown – David Köler, German composer (b. c. 1532)