title: 1576 in music
text: # 1576 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocated to Paris.
  * Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Giammateo Asola
     * Vespertina majorem solennitatum psalmodia for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats
     * Missa pro defunctis (Mass for the dead) for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Antoine de Bertrand – Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours
  * Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
  * Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  * Estevan Daça – El Parnasso (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela
  * Andrea Gabrieli – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Orlande de Lassus
     * Patrocinium musices, Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
     * Third book of schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Tiburtio Massaino
     * Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
     * First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Giuseffo Guglielmo)
  * Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  * Leonhard Päminger – Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum... (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg
  * Bonifacio Pasquale – I salmi che si cantano tutto l'anno al Vespro a cinque voci et un Magnificat a otto... (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Quivi sospiri
  
  ## Births
  
  * October – Thomas Weelkes, organist and composer (died 1623)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 19 – Hans Sachs, meistersinger (born 1494)
  * August – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian and Polish composer and lutenist (born 1507)
  * probable
     * David Abell, organist and composer
     * Josquin Baston, court composer
     * Jan van Wintelroy, Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster
  