1566 in music

Events

• none listed

Publications

• Simon Boyleau – Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
• Joachim a Burck
  • Harmoniae sacrae for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
  • Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Pierre Clereau – First and second books of odes de Ronsard for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Claude Goudimel
  • Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
• Jacquet of Mantua – Himni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Nouvelles chansons for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
• Mattheus Le Maistre – Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
• Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
• Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Il desiderio secondo libro
• Costanzo Porta
  • Musica in introitus missarum quae in diebus dominicis toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
  • Musica in introitus missarum quae in solemnitatibus sanctorum omnium toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)

Births

• March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
• date unknown – Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (b. 1510) ^[1]
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (b. 1525)

References

1. "Antonio de Cabezón". Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 10 December 2025.