1573 in music

Events

• Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho becomes organist of Badajoz Cathedral.

Publications

• Cipriano de Rore, Sacrae cantiones (pub. by Pierre Phalèse)

Births

• January 31
  • Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and Meistersinger
  • Giulio Cesare Monteverdi (baptized), Italian composer, younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi
• February 22 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian composer
• July 19 (baptized) – Inigo Jones, English stage designer and architect (died 1652)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Colombini, Italian composer and organist
  • Benedikt Faber, German composer
  • Juan de Palomares, Spanish composer and guitarist
  • Alessandro Striggio the younger, Italian composer
• probable – Géry de Ghersem, Flemish composer and singer (died 1630)
  • Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 15 (or earlier) – Christopher Tye, English composer (born c1505)
• November 17 – Joannes Pionnier, French composer
• December 7 – John Thorne, English composer and poet
• December 27–December 31 – Firmin Lebel, French chorus director and composer
• date unknown
  • Johannes Claux, Flemish composer
  • Melchior Kreisstein, German music printer
  • Gislain Manilius, Flemish music printer
  • Pierre Phalèse the Elder, Flemish music publisher
• probable – Alfonso dalla Viola, Italian composer and instrumentalist