# 1572 in music
## Events

* 20 February – John of Austria, through the agency of Girolamo Dalla Casa in Venice, purchases a large number of wind instruments and printed editions of music for his court, paying the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.
* William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

## Publications

* Lodovico Agostini
** Enigmi musicali... il primo libro a sei... (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
** Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
** First book of canons and echo for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
* Ippolito Baccusi
** Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
** Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Joachim a Burck
** First book of sacrae odae for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
** A Birthday song for the firstborn son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
* Girolamo Conversi – First book of canzoni alla Napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Andrea Gabrieli – First book of masses for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Jacobus de Kerle
** Liber modulorum for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
** Liber modulorum sacrorum for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
* Orlande de Lassus
** Moduli for four and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
** Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
* Paulus Melissus – Di Psalmen Davids for four voices (Heidelberg: Michael Schirat), a German translation of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze's French psalms
* Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum Liber Secundus (Second Book of Motets) for five, six, and eight voices
* Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Third book of canzoni napolitane for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Francesco Portinaro – Third book of motets for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Johann Rasch published in Munich:
** Cantiunculae Paschales (Little Easter Songs)
** Cantiones Ecclesiast. de Nativ. Christi, 4 voc.
** In Monte Olivarum
** Salve Regina, 6 voc.
* Giulio Zacchini – Motetta a 4 vocum

## Births

* February 14 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet
* March 16 (baptized) – Daniel Bacheler, English lutenist and composer (d. c. 1619).
* May 25 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German music patron and composer (d. 1632).
* September 15 (baptized) – Erasmus Widmann, German composer, teacher, instrumentalist, organist, and poet (d. 1634)
* October 19 (baptized) – Paolo Fonghetto, Italian composer
* December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech composer, pedagogue and humanist (d. 1622)
* date unknown
** Martin Peerson, English composer, organist and virginalist (d. 1650 or 1651).
** Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (d. 1656)
** Alessandro Ghivizzani, Italian composer

## Deaths

* January – Robert Parsons, composer (b. c. 1535; drowned)
* February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
* August 28? – Claude Goudimel, French composer, murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. (b. c. 1514)
* date unknown
** Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
** Francesco Londariti (Frankiskos Leontaritis), Cretan composer, active in Venice and Munich
** Christopher Tye, English composer (b. c. 1571-1573)