1574 in music

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Events

Publications

Lodovico Agostini – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
Giammateo Asola
- First book of masses for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
- Psalmodia ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also contains two Magnificats
Joachim a Burck – Passio Iesu Christi. Im 22. Psalm des Propheten Davids beschrieben for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
Joachim a Burck & Johannes Eccard – Odae Ludovici Helmboldi, latinae & germanicae (Odes of Ludwig Helmbold, in Latin and German) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a shared volume of hymn settings
Ippolito Chamaterò – Introits for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
Johannes Eccard – Zwentzig Neue Christliche Gesäng Ludovici Helmboldi (Twenty New Christian Songs by Ludwig Helmbold) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
Vincenzo Galilei – First book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
Jacobus de Kerle – Egregia cantio, in gratiam et honorem generosi ac nobilis domini, Melchioris Lincken Augustani for six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
Orlande de Lassus
- Patrocinium musices, Part 2 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of masses for five voices
- Patrocinium musices, Part 3 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of liturgical music for five voices
Giorgio Mainerio – Magnificat in all eight tones for four voices (Venice: Giovanni Bariletto)
Claudio Merulo – First book of ricercari da cantare for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
Philippe de Monte
- Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
Melchior Neusidler – Teuetsch Lautenbuch

Births

January 9 (baptized) – Christoph Buel, German composer
January 17 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (died 1637)
March 7 (baptized) – John Wilbye, English madrigal composer (died 1638)
May 14 – Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor (died 1621)
July 8 (baptized) – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
September 2 (baptized) – Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
September 27 (baptized) – Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
date unknown
- Andreas Hakenberger, composer (died 1627)
- Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (d. 1618).
- Claudio Pari, Italian composer (d. c. 1619).

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