1566 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• none listed

Publications

• Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Il desiderio secondo libro

Births

• March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
• date unknown – Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (b. 1510)
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (b. 1525)