1573 in music explained

Events

• Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho becomes organist of Badajoz Cathedral.

Publications

• Giammateo Asola – Latin: Completorium per totum annum quatuorque illae Beatae Virginis [[antiphon]]ae quae in fine pro anni tempore secundum [[Roman curia|Romanam curiam]] decantatur for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Joachim a Burck – Latin: Sacrae cantiones plane novae (Entirely new sacred songs) for six voices (Nuremberg: Dietrich Gerlach)
• Ippolito Chamaterò – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Italian: Salmi di David profeta con tre Magnificat for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons)
• Giovanni Ferretti – First book of Italian: canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of masses for five and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Paolo Isnardi – Masses for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Jacobus de Kerle
  • Latin: Liber modulorum sacrorum for four, five, and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Book of motets for four and five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes a Te Deum for six voices
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Latin: Patrocinium musices, part 1 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
  • Latin: Moduli for six, seven, and twelve voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • German: Viersprachendruck for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), containing six pieces each in Latin, German, French, and Italian
• Claudio Merulo – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Annibale Padovano – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Leonhard Päminger – two collections of motets published posthumously in Nuremberg by his sons
• Costanzo Porta – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Cipriano de Rore – Sacrae cantiones (pub. by Petrus Phalesius the Elder)

Births

• January 31
  • Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
  • Giulio Cesare Monteverdi (baptized), Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi (d. 1630-31).
• February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
• July 19 (baptized) – Inigo Jones, English stage designer and architect (d. 1652)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
  • Benedikt Faber, German composer
  • Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
  • Alessandro Striggio the younger, Italian composer (d. 1630).
• probable – Géry de Ghersem, Flemish composer and singer (d. 1630)
  • Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 15 (or earlier) – Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1505)
• November 17 – Joannes Pionnier, French composer
• December 7 – John Thorne, English composer and poet
• December 27 – December 31 – Firmin Lebel, French chorus director and composer
• date unknown
  • Johannes Claux, Flemish composer
  • Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
  • Gislain Manilius, Flemish music printer
  • Petrus Phalesius the Elder, Flemish music publisher
• probable – Alfonso dalla Viola, Italian composer and instrumentalist