1568 in music
# 1568 in music

## Events

* Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
* Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
* Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
* Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

## Publications

* Giovanni Animuccia – Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
* Joachim a Burck – Die deutsche Passion (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
* Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
* Pierre Certon – Missa Christus resurgens for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
* Baldassare Donato – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Vincenzo Galilei – Fronimo Dialogo (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.
* Paolo Isnardi
   * Masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
   * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Orlande de Lassus – Selectissimae cantiones for four, five, six, and more voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
* Claudio Merulo – Messe d'intavolatura d'organo, book four (Venice), a collection of masses arranged for organ
* Francesco Portinaro
   * Le vergine for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
   * Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Cipriano de Rore
   * Gli amorosi concenti, a posthumous collection of madrigals
   * Il quinto libro de madrigali, posthumous second, expanded edition (first edition: 1566)

## Births

* February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer (died 1643)
* September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)
* date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (died 1635)

## Deaths

* June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture (born 1522; executed)
* October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (born 1514/1515)
* November 12 – Georg Forster, composer (born 1510)
