1559 in music

Events

 * Cipriano de Rore leaves his post as maestro di cappella in Ferrara when Alfonso II becomes duke.

Publications

 * Filippo Azzaiolo – Il secondo libro de villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Jacob Clemens non Papa
 * Eighth book of masses: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Ninth book of masses: Missa A la fontaine du prez for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Pierre Clereau
 * First book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Tenth book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Johannes de Cleve
 * First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
 * Second book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
 * Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Philibert Jambe de Fer – Psalmodie de quarante et un pseaumes royaux (Lyon: Michel Du Bois)
 * Clément Janequin – Octante deux pseaumes de David traduits en rithme françoise par Cl. Marot et autres avec plusieurs cantiques (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
 * Mattheus Le Maistre – Catechesis numeris musicis inclusa for three voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
 * Costanzo Porta
 * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova

Births

 * date unknown - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (d. 1625)

Deaths

 * October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (b. 1483)
 * date unknown
 * Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (b. c. 1512)