1570 in music explained

Events

• 5 July – Annibale Zoilo joins the Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome as an alto.^[1]
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi becomes master of Duke Alfonso of Ferrara's private musica da camera, which was soon to become one of the most distinguished in Europe
• Orlande de Lassus is made a nobleman by Emperor Maximilian II, and knighted by Pope Gregory XIII
• Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
• First appearance of the air de cour, a ubiquitous type of popular secular music in France until around 1650
• Lázaro del Álamo leaves his post as maestro di capilla in Mexico City
• Approximate date of the "Son de la Má Teodora", the earliest surviving example of son montuno from Cuba

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Giovanni Animuccia – Second book of laudi (Rome: Camerali for Antonio Blado)
• Giammateo Asola – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Ippolito Baccusi
  • First book of masses, for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Lodovico Balbi – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of Giustiniane
• Maddalena Casulana – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history
• Pierre Certon – French: Les meslanges (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin), a collection of sacred songs for five, six, seven, and eight voices with one for nine and one for thirteen
• Francesco Corteccia – Responsories for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Guillaume Costeley – French: Musique de Guillaume Costeley (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of French chansons for five voices
• Nicolao Dorati – Italian: Le Stanze della Signora Vittoria Colonna Marchesana di Pescara Illustrissima for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), containing settings of poems by Vittoria Colonna
• Giovanni Ferretti – Third book of Italian: canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli), also includes two for six voices and a dialogue for eight voices
• Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice)
• Nicolas de La Grotte – French: Chansons de P. de Ronsard, Ph. Desportes, et autres (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • 5 Masses Latin: suavissimis modulationibus refertae (filled with sweet melodies) for four and five voices, book 2 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
  • Latin: Selectiorum aliquot cantionum sacrarum for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Mattheus Le Maistre – First book of motets for five voices (Dresden: Gimel Bergen)
• Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of masses, for four to six voices (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

Classical music

• Geert van Turnhout – Missa ‘O Maria vernans rosa’ a 5
• Approximate date – Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium

Births

• June 13 (baptized) – Paul Peuerl, German composer and organist (d. c. after 1625).
• June 18 (baptized) – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (d. 1626)
• August 19 – Salamone Rossi, Italian composer (d. 1630)
• October 21 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer and music theorist
• probable
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima, Italian composer (d. 1622)
  • John Cooper (Coprario), English composer (d. 1626)
  • Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (d. 1638)
  • John Farmer, English madrigal composer (d. 1605)
  • Claudia Sessa, Italian composer (d. c. 1617-19)

Deaths

• January – Pierre Clereau, composer and choirmaster
• March 25 – Johann Walter, German composer (b. 1496)
• September – Jean de Bonmarché, composer (b. c. 1525)
• date unknown – Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist, organist and composer (b. c. 1510).
• probable
  • Jean Maillard, French composer (approximate date) (b. c. 1515)
  • Diego Ortiz, Spanish music theorist and composer (approximate date) (b. c. 1510)

Notes and References

1. Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).