1576 in music

Events

 * Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocated to Paris.
 * Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

 * Giammateo Asola
 * Vespertina majorem solennitatum psalmodia for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats
 * Missa pro defunctis (Mass for the dead) for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Antoine de Bertrand – Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours
 * Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
 * Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Estevan Daça – El Parnasso (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela
 * Andrea Gabrieli – Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Patrocinium musices, Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
 * Third book of schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
 * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Tiburtio Massaino
 * Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Giuseffo Guglielmo)
 * Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Leonhard Päminger – Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum... (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg
 * Bonifacio Pasquale – I salmi che si cantano tutto l'anno al Vespro a cinque voci et un Magnificat a otto... (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)

Classical music

 * Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Quivi sospiri

Births

 * October – Thomas Weelkes, organist and composer (d. 1623)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Hans Sachs, meistersinger (b. 1494)
 * August – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian and Polish composer and lutenist (b. 1507; plague)
 * probable
 * David Abell, organist and composer
 * Josquin Baston, court composer
 * Jan van Wintelroy, Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster