1572 in music

Events

 * 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.
 * William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Publications

 * Lodovico Agostini
 * Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
 * Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
 * First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
 * Ippolito Baccusi
 * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Joachim a Burck
 * First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
 * A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
 * Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
 * Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
 * Jacobus de Kerle
 * Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
 * Paulus Melissus – Di Psalmen Davids for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
 * Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
 * Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Johann Rasch published in Munich:
 * Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
 * Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
 * In Monte Olivarum
 * Salve Regina, 6 voc.
 * Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum

Births

 * February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
 * March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer (d. c. 1619).
 * May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632).
 * September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634)
 * October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
 * December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622)
 * date unknown
 * Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651).
 * Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656)
 * Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

Deaths

 * January – Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned)
 * February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
 * August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514)
 * date unknown
 * Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
 * Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
 * Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)