1566 in music

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Events

• none listed

Publications

• Simon Boyleau – for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
• Joachim a Burck
  • for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
  • Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Pierre Clereau – First and second books of for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Claude Goudimel
  • Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
• Jacquet of Mantua – for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
• Mattheus Le Maistre – (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
• Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
• Melchior Neusidler – (two volumes)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina –
• Costanzo Porta
  • for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
  • for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)

Births

• March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
• date unknown – Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (b. 1510)
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (b. 1525)