1565 in music
# 1565 in music

## Events

* Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
* 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
* Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan.
* Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.

## Publications

### Secular

* Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
* Bálint Bakfark – Harmoniarum musicarum in usum testudinis factarum, book 1 (Kraków: Lazarus Andrea), a collection of lute tablature
* Gioseffo Guami – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme
* Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

### Sacred

* Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
* Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentationes, Responsoria, Benedictus, Miserere, multaque alia devotissima cantica ad offitium Hebdomadae Sanctae pertinentia (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Andrea Gabrieli – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Orlande de Lassus
   * Modulorum for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
   * Second book of Sacrae cantiones perornatae for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
   * Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
* Paulus Melissus – Historia de navicula vehente Christum et periclitante in mari for four voices
* Diego Ortiz – Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice

## Births

* August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
* date unknown
   * Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (died 1641)
   * Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (died 1621)
   * Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (died 1627)
* probable
   * Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
   * Michael Cavendish, English court composer (died 1628)
   * Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
   * Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (died 1622)
   * Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
   * Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (died 1638)

## Deaths

* August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer (born 1500)
* mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (born 1515/1516)
* date unknown – David Köler, German composer (born c.1532)
