1576 in music
# 1576 in music

## 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 (died 1623)

## Deaths

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