1572 in music explained

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.^[1]
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 Latin: 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 Italian: 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
- Latin: Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Latin: Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Orlande de Lassus
- Latin: Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- German: Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Paulus Melissus – German: 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 Italian: 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 (d. c. 1619).
May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632).
September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634)
October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622)
date unknown
- Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651).
- Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656)^[2]
- Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

January – Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned)
February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514)
date unknown
- Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
- Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
- Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)

Notes and References

Michael J. Levin and Steven Zohn, "Don Juan de Austria and the Venetian Music Trade". Early Music 33, no. 3 (August 2005): 439–46. Citation on 439–40, 442–44.
Book: Denis Stevens. Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656. 1967. Dover Publications. 978-0-486-21689-8. 4–5. en.