1576 in music

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Events

Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocated to Paris.
Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

Giammateo Asola
- Vespertina majorem solennitatum psalmodia for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats
- Missa pro defunctis (Mass for the dead) for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Antoine de Bertrand – Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours
Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Estevan Daça – El Parnasso (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela
Andrea Gabrieli – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Orlande de Lassus
- Patrocinium musices, Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
- Third book of schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Tiburtio Massaino
- Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Giuseffo Guglielmo)
Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Leonhard Päminger – Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum... (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg
Bonifacio Pasquale – I salmi che si cantano tutto l'anno al Vespro a cinque voci et un Magnificat a otto... (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)

Classical music

Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Quivi sospiri

Births

October – Thomas Weelkes, organist and composer (d. 1623)

Deaths

January 19 – Hans Sachs, meistersinger (b. 1494)
August – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian and Polish composer and lutenist (b. 1507; plague)
probable
- David Abell, organist and composer
- Josquin Baston, court composer
- Jan van Wintelroy, Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster