1560 in music

Events

Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua.^[1]

Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano).^[2]
Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: Missa Quam pulchra es for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously.
Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Orlande de Lassus
- Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier)
Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Christoph Praetorius – De obitu reverendi viri Domini Philippi Melanthonis for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon

January 29 – Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer (d. 1633).^[3]
August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist (d. 1629).^[4]
date unknown
- William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period (d. 1630).^[5]
- Antonio Coma, Italian composer (d. 1629).^[6]
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest, the most published English composer in his time (d. 1628).^[7]
probable
- Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer (d. 1609).^[8]
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (d. 1627).^[9]

date unknown – Louis Bourgeois, composer of Calvinist hymn-tunes (born c.1510)
probable
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, organist and composer (born c.1490).^[10]
- Nicolas Gombert, composer (born c.1495)

^ Einstein, Alfred; Krappe, Alexander H.; Sessions, Roger H.; Strunk, Oliver (1971). "The Post-Classical Madrigal". The Italian Madrigal: Volume I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 385.
^ de Bellis, Frank V. (1964). The Frank V. DeBellis Collection in the Library of San Francisco State College. San Francisco: San Francisco State College Board of Trustees. p. 27.
^ Larson, Keith A. (2001). "Dentice, Scipione". Grove Music Online. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
^ Gable, Frederick K. (June 26, 2023). "Praetorius, Hieronymus". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press.
^ Stephenson, Kurt; Holman, Peter (2001). "Brade, William". Grove Music Online. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
^ Barker, John W. (September–October 1999). "Coma: Sacred Songs". American Record Guide. 62 (5): 138 – via Music Periodicals Database.
^ Steele, John (2001). "Philips [Phillipps, Phillips], Peter". Grove Music Online. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
^ Arnold, Denis (2001). "Croce, Giovanni [Ionne a Cruce Clodiensis; Chiozzotto; Chiozzotto]". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ Mompellio, Federico (2001). "Viadana [Grossi da Viadana], Lodovico". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press.
^ Slim, H. Colin (2001). "Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio". Grove Music Online. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.