title: 1575 in music
text: # 1575 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
  * The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
  * First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
  * Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
  * Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  * Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
  * Giammateo Asola – Falsi bordoni per cantar salmi for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  * Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  * Joachim a Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
  * William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones Sacrae
  * Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  * Giovanni Dragoni
     * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
     * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  * Placido Falconio – Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
  * Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  * Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  * Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns
  * Orlande de Lassus
     * Patrocinium musices, Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
     * Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  * Philippe de Monte
     * Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
     * Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
     * Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère)
  * Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
  * Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
  * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
  * Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  * Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
  * Antonio Scandello – Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden.
  * Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
  * Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.
  
  ## Births
  
  * December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (died 1631)
  * date unknown
     * John Bennet, English composer
     * Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer
     * Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (died 1631)
  * probable
     * Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (died c.1620)
     * Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (died 1628)
     * Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1651)
     * Giovanni Priuli, composer (died 1626)
     * Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (died 1647)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (born 1527)
  * April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
  * July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (born 1505)
  * August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
  * probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
  * possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1511)
  