1570 in music

Events

• Approximate beginning date of the late Italian madrigal style
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi becomes master of Duke Alfonso of Ferrara's private musica da camera, which was soon to become one of the most distinguished in Europe
• Orlande de Lassus is made a nobleman by Emperor Maximilian II, and knighted by Pope Gregory XIII
• Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
• First appearance of the air de cour, a ubiquitous type of popular secular music in France until around 1650
• Lázaro del Álamo leaves his post as maestro di capilla in Mexico City
• Approximate date of the "Son de la Má Teodora", the earliest surviving example of son montuno from Cuba

Publications

• Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of Giustiniane
• Maddalena Casulana publishes her second book of madrigals, the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history
• Andrea Gabrieli publishes second book of madrigals, for five to eight voices, in Venice
• Orlande de Lassus publishes two books of sacred music, one in Leuven and one in Venice
• Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals a5
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his third book of masses, for four to six voices, in Rome

Classical music

• Geert van Turnhout - Missa ‘O Maria vernans rosa’ a 5

Births

• June 13 (baptized) – Paul Peuerl, German composer and organist
• June 18 (baptized) – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (died 1626)
• August 19 – Salamone Rossi, Italian composer (died1630)
• October 21 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer and music theorist
• probable
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima, Italian composer (died 1622)
  • John Cooper (Coprario), English composer (died 1626)
  • Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (died 1638)
  • John Farmer, English madrigal composer (died 1605)

Deaths

• January - Pierre Clereau, composer and choirmaster
• March 25 – Johann Walter, German composer (born 1496)
• September - Jean de Bonmarché, composer (born c.1525)
• date unknown - Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist, organist and composer
• probable
  • Jean Maillard, French composer (approximate date) (born c1515)
  • Diego Ortiz, Spanish music theorist and composer (approximate date) (born c1510)