Events
Cipriano de Rore leaves his post as maestro di cappella in Ferrara when Alfonso II becomes duke.
Publications
Filippo Azzaiolo – , for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Jacob Clemens non Papa Eighth book of masses: for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously Ninth book of masses: for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously Pierre Clereau First book of for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Tenth book of for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Johannes de Cleve First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard) Second book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard) Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Philibert Jambe de Fer – (Lyon: Michel Du Bois) Clément Janequin – (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously Mattheus Le Maistre – for three voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber) Costanzo Porta First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova
Births
date unknown - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (died 1625)
Deaths
October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483) date unknown Jacques Collebaut, Breton composer Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (born c. 1512)