1562 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• 18 January – The Council of Trent begins a new session, in the course of which it considers decrees relating to sacred music.
• Cristofano Malvezzi enters the service of the Medici in Florence.
• Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder arrives in England and is employed at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• Rinaldo del Mel begins his musical studies at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut.

Publications

• Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica, fourth edition

Classical music

• Jacobus de Kerle – Preces Speciales (setting of texts by Pedro de Soto)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli

Births

• January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist (died 1621)
• April/May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist and composer (died 1621)
• probable – John Bull, composer and organ builder (died 1628)

Deaths

• October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer (born c.1490)
• December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (born c.1490)
• probable – Perissone Cambio, Franco-Flemish composer and singer