1573 in music

Events

 * Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).
 * Manuel Rodrigues Coelho becomes organist of Badajoz Cathedral.

Publications

 * Giammateo Asola – Completorium per totum annum quatuorque illae Beatae Virginis antiphonae quae in fine pro anni tempore secundum Romanam curiam decantatur for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Joachim a Burck – Sacrae cantiones plane novae (Entirely new sacred songs) for six voices (Nuremberg: Dietrich Gerlach)
 * Ippolito Chamaterò – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – Salmi di David profeta con tre Magnificat for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons)
 * Giovanni Ferretti – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of masses for five and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
 * Paolo Isnardi – Masses for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
 * Jacobus de Kerle
 * Liber modulorum sacrorum for four, five, and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
 * Book of motets for four and five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes a Te Deum for six voices
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Patrocinium musices, part 1 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
 * Moduli for six, seven, and twelve voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Viersprachendruck for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), containing six pieces each in Latin, German, French, and Italian
 * Claudio Merulo – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Philippe de Monte – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Annibale Padovano – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Leonhard Päminger – two collections of motets published posthumously in Nuremberg by his sons
 * Costanzo Porta – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Cipriano de Rore – Sacrae cantiones (pub. by Petrus Phalesius the Elder)

Births

 * January 31
 * Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
 * Giulio Cesare Monteverdi (baptized), Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi (d. 1630-31).
 * February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
 * July 19 (baptized) – Inigo Jones, English stage designer and architect (d. 1652)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
 * Benedikt Faber, German composer
 * Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
 * Alessandro Striggio the younger, Italian composer (d. 1630).
 * probable – Géry de Ghersem, Flemish composer and singer (d. 1630)
 * Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli, Italian composer.

Deaths

 * March 15 (or earlier) – Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1505)
 * November 17 – Joannes Pionnier, French composer
 * December 7 – John Thorne, English composer and poet
 * December 27 – December 31 – Firmin Lebel, French chorus director and composer
 * date unknown
 * Johannes Claux, Flemish composer
 * Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
 * Gislain Manilius, Flemish music printer
 * Petrus Phalesius the Elder, Flemish music publisher
 * probable – Alfonso dalla Viola, Italian composer and instrumentalist