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Events
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina becomes maestro di cappella at the Julian Chapel, St. Peter's, Rome
- Andrea Gabrieli writes the music for the festivities celebrating the victory of the Venetians over the Turks after the Battle of Lepanto.
- Orlande de Lassus visits France at the personal invitation of King Charles IX, who unsuccessfully attempts to employ him
- Tomás Luis de Victoria begins teaching at the Collegio Germanico in Rome
- Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, moves to Padua, Italy
Publications
- Elias Ammerbach publishes the first printed German organ music, the tablature Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur
- Orlande de Lassus publishes two books of music in Paris, including some of his most famous chansons
- Gioseffo Zarlino published Dimonstrationi harmoniche, which establishes the primacy of the major mode
- Philippe de Monte publishes his fourth book of madrigals, in Venice
Births
- January 15 (baptized) - Henry Ainsworth, author of the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought by the Pilgrim settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. (died 1622)
- February 15 (possibly) - Michael Praetorius, German composer and music theorist (died 1621)
- May 17 - William White, English composer
- August 7 - Thomas Lupo, English composer of instrumental music (died 1627)
- December 27 - Johannes Kepler, astronomer and writer on music (died 1630)
- Dates unknown
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- Filipe de Magalhães, Portuguese composer
- Leon Modena, Italian rabbi, cantor, scholar and writer on music
- Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
- John Ward, English composer of madrigals
Deaths
- June 7 - Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer and organist
- Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (b. c.1499) [see: in Spanish, Bernardino de Sahagún.]
