1578 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

Bernardino Bertolotti becomes a court musician of the Este family at Ferrara.

Publications

Il primo libro de' balli by Giorgio Mainerio is published in Venice

Classical music

Jan Trojan Turnovský - Missa super Jerusalem cito veniet

Births

December 2 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer (died 1640)

Deaths

probable - Francesco Portinaro, composer and humanist (born c.1520)