1572 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.
• William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini
  • Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Ippolito Baccusi
  • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Joachim a Burck
  • First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
  • A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
• Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Jacobus de Kerle
  • Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Paulus Melissus – Di Psalmen Davids for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
• Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
• Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Johann Rasch published in Munich:
  • Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
  • Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
  • In Monte Olivarum
  • Salve Regina, 6 voc.
• Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum

Births

• February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
• March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer
• May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (died 1632)
• September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet
• October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
• December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (died 1622)
• date unknown
  • Martin Peerson (born ca. 1571 – ca. 1573; died 1650 or 1651), English composer, organist and virginalist
  • Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (died 1656)
  • Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

• January – Robert Parsons, composer (born c.1535)
• February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (born c1510)
• August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (born c1514)
• date unknown
  • Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
  • Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
  • Christopher Tye, English composer (between August 27, 1571 and March 15, 1573)