1575 in music

Events

*The first performance of a mixed consort in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
*First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
*Thomas Tallis and William Byrd granted 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I
*Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.

Publications

*Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach publishes "Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch", a book of 40 vocal intabulations and one praeambulum.
*Constanzo Antegnati publishes a book of four- and five-part motets.
*Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
*William Byrd & Thomas Tallis - "Cantiones Sacrae"
*Ippolito Chamaterò publishes "Li Magnificat" in Venice.
*Ferretti publishes the "Canzoni", his second book of light, secular pieces, for six voices
*Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola - Motets for six voices
*Costanzo Porta - "Litaniae", published in Venice.
*Antonio Scandello - "Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder", published in Dresden.
*"Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera", an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
*"Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng", a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.

Births

*Agostino Agresta, Italian composer
*Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer
*Girolamo Baglioni, Italian composer
*Pierre Ballard, French music printer for King Henry IV and King Louis XIII
*Lelio Basile, Italian composer
*Gabriel Bataille, French composer and lutenist
*Lodovico Bellanda, Italian composer and organist
*Giuseppe Belloni, Italian composer
*John Bennet, English composer
*Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer
*Lodovico Casali, Italian composer, organist, priest, and music writer
*Juan Francisco Cervera, Spanish music theorist
*"probable" - Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1651)

Deaths

*March 15 - Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (born 1527)
*April 17 - Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
*August 16 - Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
*"probable" - Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist