1574 in music

Events

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices
• Giammateo Asola
• *First book of masses for four voices
• *Psalmodia ad Vespers for eight voices, also contains two Magnificats
• Joachim a Burck – Passio Iesu Christi. Im 22. Psalm des Propheten Davids beschrieben for four voices
• Joachim a Burck & Johannes Eccard – Odae Ludovici Helmboldi, latinae & germanicae for four voices, a shared volume of hymn settings
• Ippolito Chamaterò – Introits for four, five, and six voices
• Melchior Neusidler – Teuetsch Lautenbuch

  Births

• January 9 – Christoph Buel, German composer
• January 17 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer
• March 7 – John Wilbye, English madrigal composer
• May 14 – Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor
• July 8 – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
• September 2 – Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
• September 27 – Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
• date unknown
• *Andreas Hakenberger, composer
• *Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
• *Claudio Pari, Italian composer

  Deaths

• February – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer
• March – Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
• March 5 – Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
• November – Robert White, English composer
• date unknown
• *Jean Guyon, French composer of chansons
• *Antonfrancesco Doni – Italian writer, academic and musician