1569 in music
Events
- January â Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
- July 22 â Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.
- October â Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.
- date unknown â A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.
Publications
Secular music
- Jacques Arcadelt
- Sixth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
- Ninth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
- Filippo Azzaiolo â , for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Ippolito Chamaterò
- , for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- , for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- , for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- , for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Giovanni Matteo Faàdi Bruno â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Giovanni Ferretti â Second book of for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Giulio Fiesco â First book of for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini
- Tiburtio Massaino â First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte
- First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio)
- Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Costanzo Porta â Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Sacred music
- Paolo Aretino â Magnificat for five voices, book 1 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
- Joachim a Burck â for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Ippolito Chamaterò â First book of masses for five and seven voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Sigmund Hemmel â for four voices (Tubingen: Ulrich Morharts), a German-language psalter, published posthumously
- Paolo Isnardi
- for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Orlande de Lassus â for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome
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