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 – (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
• Joachim a Burck – (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 – for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
• Baldassare Donato – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Vincenzo Galilei – (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 – for four, five, six, and more voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
• Claudio Merulo – , book four (Venice), a collection of masses arranged for organ
• Francesco Portinaro
• for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Cipriano de Rore
• , a posthumous collection of madrigals
• , posthumous second, expanded edition (first edition: 1566)

Births

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

Deaths

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

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