1569 in music

Events

 * January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
 * July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.
 * October – Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.
 * date unknown – A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.

Secular music

 * Jacques Arcadelt
 * Sixth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
 * Ninth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
 * Filippo Azzaiolo – Il terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Ippolito Chamaterò
 * Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Giulio Fiesco – First book of Musica nova for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini
 * Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Philippe de Monte
 * First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio)
 * Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Costanzo Porta – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

Sacred music

 * Paolo Aretino – Magnificat for five voices, book 1 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
 * Joachim a Burck – Symbolum apostolicum, nicenum, et canticum symbolum sanctorum Augustinii et Ambrosii for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
 * Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of masses for five and seven voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Sigmund Hemmel – Der ganz Psalter Davids for four voices (Tubingen: Ulrich Morharts), a German-language psalter, published posthumously
 * Paolo Isnardi
 * Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Psalmi omnes qui ad vesperas for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Orlande de Lassus – Cantiones aliquot for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome

Births

 * 16 November – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist (d. 1609)
 * probable – Tobias Hume, viol player and composer (d. 1645)

Deaths

 * 11 September – Vincenza Armani, Italian opera singer, musician and composer (b. c. 1530).
 * 20 September – Agostino Agostini, Italian composer and singer
 * date unknown – Hoste da Reggio, composer (b. c. 1520)