1573 in music
# 1573 in music

## Events

* Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).
* Manuel Rodrigues Coelho becomes organist of Badajoz Cathedral.

## Publications

* Giammateo Asola – Completorium per totum annum quatuorque illae Beatae Virginis antiphonae quae in fine pro anni tempore secundum Romanam curiam decantatur for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Joachim a Burck – Sacrae cantiones plane novae (Entirely new sacred songs) for six voices (Nuremberg: Dietrich Gerlach)
* Ippolito Chamaterò – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Salmi di David profeta con tre Magnificat for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons)
* Giovanni Ferretti – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of masses for five and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Paolo Isnardi – Masses for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Jacobus de Kerle
   * Liber modulorum sacrorum for four, five, and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
   * Book of motets for four and five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes a Te Deum for six voices
* Orlande de Lassus
   * Patrocinium musices, part 1 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
   * Moduli for six, seven, and twelve voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
   * Viersprachendruck for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), containing six pieces each in Latin, German, French, and Italian
* Claudio Merulo – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Annibale Padovano – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Leonhard Päminger – two collections of motets published posthumously in Nuremberg by his sons
* Costanzo Porta – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Cipriano de Rore – Sacrae cantiones (pub. by Petrus Phalesius the Elder)

## Births

* January 31
   * Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
   * Giulio Cesare Monteverdi (baptized), Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi
* February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
* July 19 (baptized) – Inigo Jones, English stage designer and architect (died 1652)
* date unknown
   * Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
   * Benedikt Faber, German composer
   * Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
   * Alessandro Striggio the younger, Italian composer
* probable – Géry de Ghersem, Flemish composer and singer (died 1630)
   * Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli, Italian composer.

## Deaths

* March 15 (or earlier) – Christopher Tye, English composer (born c1505)
* November 17 – Joannes Pionnier, French composer
* December 7 – John Thorne, English composer and poet
* December 27 – December 31 – Firmin Lebel, French chorus director and composer
* date unknown
   * Johannes Claux, Flemish composer
   * Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
   * Gislain Manilius, Flemish music printer
   * Petrus Phalesius the Elder, Flemish music publisher
* probable – Alfonso dalla Viola, Italian composer and instrumentalist
