1573 in music

thumb | right | alt=A historical black-and-white illustration showing detailed diagrams of a 19-key per octave harpsichord keyboard layout from a 1573 music treatise | An illustration of a harpsichord keyboard with 19 keys in one octave from Gioseffo Zarlino's Le institutione harmoniche (1573) 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 – la Completorium per totum annum quatuorque illae Beatae Virginis antiphonae quae in fine pro anni tempore secundum Romanam curiam decantatur for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Joachim a Burck – la 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 – it Salmi di David profeta con tre Magnificat for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons) Giovanni Ferretti – First book of it 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 la 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 la Patrocinium musices, part 1 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets la Moduli for six, seven, and twelve voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) de 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 instrumentalistSpencer Kathleen Moretto Brown Howard Mayer November 1986 How Alfonso della Viola Tuned His Viols, and How He Transposed https://www.jstor.org/stable/3127518 Early Music 14 4 Oxford University Press 520-533 3127518 5 April 2026 References Category:1570s in music Category:1573 in the arts Music Category:16th century in music Category:Music by year