1579 in music
# 1579 in music

## Publications

* Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
* Ippolito Baccusi
   * First book of motets, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazatto)
   * Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Joachim a Burck (March 21) – Ein christlich Lied... (Mühlhausen: George Hantzsch)
* Johannes de Cleve – Cantiones seu harmoniae sacrae for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard & Andreas Reinheckel)
* Nicolao Dorati – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giovanni Dragoni – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Placido Falconio – Psalmodia vespertina for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
* Stefano Felis – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Eucharius Hoffmann – Vyff geistlike olde Ostergesenge for four voices (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
* Fernando de las Infantas
   * Sacrarum varii styli cantionum tituli Spiritus sancti, book three, for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
   * Plura modulationum genera (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a book of counterpoint exercises
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Ondřej Chrysoponus Jevíčský – Bicinia nova (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
* Orlando di Lasso – Corona di Madrigali
* Giovanni de Macque – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte
   * Missa Benedicta es for six voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
   * Fifth book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

## Births

* date unknown – John Amner, composer and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral (died 1641)
* probable – Melchior Franck, composer (died 1639)

## Deaths

* date unknown – Miguel de Fuenllana, composer (born c.1500)
* probable – David Peebles, composer
