1565 in music

Events

• Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
• 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as 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 – , 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 –
• Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

Sacred

• Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
• Paolo Ferrarese – (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of 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
• for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
• Second book of for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• 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 – for four voices
• Diego Ortiz – , Venice

Births

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

Deaths

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