# 1575 in music
## Events

* January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
* The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
* First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
* Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.

## Publications

* Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
* Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
* Giammateo Asola – Falsi bordoni per cantar salmi for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Joachim a Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
* William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur
* Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Giovanni Dragoni
** First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
** Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Placido Falconio – Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
* Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns
* Orlande de Lassus
** Patrocinium musices, Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
** Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
* Philippe de Monte
** Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
** Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère)
* Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
* Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
* Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
* 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

* December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (d. 1631)
* date unknown
** John Bennet, English composer (d. c. 1614).
** Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (d. 1641)
** Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (d. 1631)
* probable
** Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (d. c. 1620)
** Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (d. 1628)
** Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (d. 1651)
** Giovanni Priuli, composer (d. 1626)
** Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (d. 1647)

## Deaths

* March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (b. 1527)
* April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
* July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (b. 1505)
* August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
* probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
* possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1511; possibly plague)