1565 in music

Events

Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as Script error: No such module "Lang". 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.

Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
Bálint Bakfark – Script error: No such module "Lang"., 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 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
Paolo Ferrarese – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Andrea Gabrieli – First book of Script error: No such module "Lang". 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
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
- Second book of Script error: No such module "Lang". for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". 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 – Script error: No such module "Lang". for four voices
Diego Ortiz – Script error: No such module "Lang"., Venice

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)

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)