1569 in music

Title page of the psalter by Sigmund Hemmel

Events

• January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
• July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.^[1]
• October – 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.^[2]
• date unknown – 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.^[3]

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 – Il terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Ippolito Chamaterò
  • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giulio Fiesco – First book of Musica nova for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini
• Tiburtio Massaino – 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 – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

Sacred music

• Paolo Aretino – Magnificat for five voices, book 1 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
• Joachim a Burck – Symbolum apostolicum, nicenum, et canticum symbolum sanctorum Augustinii et Ambrosii for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of masses for five and seven voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Sigmund Hemmel – Der ganz Psalter Davids for four voices (Tubingen: Ulrich Morharts), a German-language psalter, published posthumously
• Paolo Isnardi
  • Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Psalmi omnes qui ad vesperas for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Orlande de Lassus – Cantiones aliquot for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome

Births

• 16 November – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist (d. 1609)
• probable – Tobias Hume, viol player and composer (d. 1645)

Deaths

• 11 September – Vincenza Armani, Italian opera singer, musician and composer (b. c. 1530).
• 20 September – Agostino Agostini, Italian composer and singer
• date unknown – Hoste da Reggio, composer (b. c. 1520)