1558 in music

Events

 * April – Clemens Stephani is appointed Kantor at the Lateinschule in Eger.
 * 9 August – Annibale Zoilo joins the Cappella Giulia in Rome
 * October – Nicolas de La Grotte marries Marie Cipran de St. Cloud
 * Orlande de Lassus marries Regina Wäckinger, the daughter of a Bavarian court official, in Munich.

Bands formed

 * Messina Cathedral cappella

Music

 * Paolo Aretino – Li madrigali for five to eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Cyprian Bazylik
 * Nabożna piosnka a obiecna modlitwa człowieka krześciańskiego do Syna Bożego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Pieśń nowa w ktorej jest dziękowanie Panu Bogu wszechmogącemu ze malutkim i prostakom raczył objawić tajemnice Krolestwa swego for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Pieśń o niebezpieczeństwie żywota csłowieczego (Wspominając początek żywota naszego) for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Psalm 79. Deus venerunt gentes in haereditatem tuam for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Psalm 127. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Psalm 129. De profundis clamavi ad te Domine for four voices (Kraków: Matthäus Siebeneicher)
 * Simon Boyleau – Second book of madrigals and canzonas for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni & Cesare Pozzo)
 * Pierre Cadéac – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Pierre Certon
 * Missa pro defunctis (Requiem mass) for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Missa Le temps qui court for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Jacob Clemens non Papa – Seventh book of masses: Missa Languir my fault for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of ricercars for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
 * Claude Goudimel – 3 Masses for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Clément Janequin – Proverbes de Salomon for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Jacobus de Kerle – Hymni totius anni secundum ritum Sanctae Rom. Eccl. et Magnificat (Hymns for the whole year following the rite of the Holy Roman Church, and a Magnificat) for four and five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
 * Jean Maillard – Missa super M'amie un jour for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Jan Nasco – First book of canzon villanesce alla Napolitana for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giaches de Wert – Il secondo libro delle muse

Theory

 * Jan Blahoslav – Musica: to gest knjžka zpěwákům, published in Olomouc, the first book on music theory in Czech
 * Gioseffo Zarlino – Le istitutioni harmoniche (Harmonic Foundations)

Births

 * date unknown – Blasius Ammon, Franciscan friar, singer and composer (d. 1590)
 * probable – Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist (d. 1617)

Deaths

 * July – Georgius Macropedius, dramatist and composer (b. c. 1475; possibly plague)
 * November – Hugh Aston, composer (b. c. 1485)
 * December – John Sheppard, singer and composer (b. c. 1515; possibly influenza)
 * December 29 – Hermann Finck, composer (b. 1527)
 * date unknown – Clément Janequin, composer (b. c. 1485)