1579 in music

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Clavecin from 1579

Publications

• Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
• Ippolito Baccusi
  • First book of motets, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazatto)
  • Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Joachim a Burck (March 21) – Ein christlich Lied... (Mühlhausen: George Hantzsch)
• Johannes de Cleve – Cantiones seu harmoniae sacrae for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard & Andreas Reinheckel)
• Nicolao Dorati – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Dragoni – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Placido Falconio – Psalmodia vespertina for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
• Stefano Felis – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Eucharius Hoffmann – Vyff geistlike olde Ostergesenge for four voices (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
• Fernando de las Infantas
  • Sacrarum varii styli cantionum tituli Spiritus sancti, book three, for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Plura modulationum genera (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a book of counterpoint exercises
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Ondřej Chrysoponus Jevíčský – Bicinia nova (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
• Orlando di Lasso – Corona di Madrigali
• Giovanni de Macque – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte
  • Missa Benedicta es for six voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
  • Fifth book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

Births

• date unknown – John Amner, composer and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral (died 1641)
• probable – Melchior Franck, composer (died 1639)

Deaths

• date unknown – Miguel de Fuenllana, composer (born c.1500)
• probable – David Peebles, composer