1562 in music

Events

 * January 1 – Ippolito Chamaterò is appointed maestro di cappella of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona.
 * January 18 – The Council of Trent begins a new session, in the course of which it considers decrees relating to sacred music.
 * Cristofano Malvezzi enters the service of the Medici in Florence.
 * Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder arrives in England and is employed at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 * Rinaldo del Mel begins his musical studies at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut.

Publications

 * Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica, fourth edition
 * Claude Goudimel – Fifth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Jacobus de Kerle
 * Preces Speciales Pro Salubri Generalis Concilii Successu (Special Prayers for the Health and Success of the General Council) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), setting of texts by Pedro de Soto for the Council of Trent
 * First book of six masses for four and five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Orlande de Lassus – Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
 * Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigal for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

Births

 * January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian librettist (d. 1621)
 * April/May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (d. 1621)
 * John Milton, English amateur composer (d. 1647)
 * probable – John Bull, English composer and organ builder (d. 1628)

Deaths

 * February 15 – Cornelius Canis, Flemish composer (b. c. 1500–1510)
 * October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer (b. c. 1490)
 * December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (b. c. 1490)
 * probable – Perissone Cambio, Franco-Flemish composer and singer (b. c. 1520)