1546 in music

Events

 * January 1 – Arnold von Bruck retires from his position as Kapellmeister at the Viennese court.
 * May - Cipriano de Rore appointed maestro do cappella at the court in Ferrara, a post he held until 1559.
 * Jacquet de Berchem appointed maestro di cappella at Verona Cathedral

Publications

 * Giulio Abondante - Intabolatura di Iulio Abondante sopra el lauto de ogni sorte de balli, the first of three extant books of lute music published in Venice by Antonio Gardano
 * Paolo Aretino – Pie ac devotissime Lamentationes Hyeremie prophete tum etiam Passiones Hiesu Christi Dominice Palmarum ac Veneris Sancti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of litanies
 * Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four voices
 * Antoine de Mornable
 * Motetorum Musicalium, book 1, for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
 * 17 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
 * Alonso Mudarra - 'Three Books of Music for vihuela in tablature' (Seville: Juan de Leon)
 * Caspar Othmayr – Epitaphium D. Martini Lutheri for five voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
 * Girolamo Parabosco – Madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

Classical music

 * Giovan Tomaso di Maio – Canzone villanesche a 3, book 1

Births
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 * September 3 – Isabella Bendidio, Italian noblewoman and singer (died 1610)
 * October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, German hymnwriter (d. 1597)
 * Luca Bati, Italian composer (died 1608)
 * Joachim a Burck, German hymn writer, composer, organist and Kantor (died 1610)

Deaths

 * Fridolin Sicher (56), organist and composer