1546 in music

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Events

January 1 – Arnold von Bruck retires from his position as Kapellmeister at the Viennese court.
May - Cipriano de Rore appointed maestro do cappella at the court in Ferrara, a post he held until 1559.
Jacquet de Berchem appointed maestro di cappella at Verona Cathedral

Giulio Abondante - Intabolatura di Iulio Abondante sopra el lauto de ogni sorte de balli, the first of three extant books of lute music published in Venice by Antonio Gardano
Paolo Aretino – Pie ac devotissime Lamentationes Hyeremie prophete tum etiam Passiones Hiesu Christi Dominice Palmarum ac Veneris Sancti (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of litanies
Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four voices
Alonso Mudarra - 'Three Books of Music for vihuela with figured bass' published in Seville.
Girolamo Parabosco – Madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

date unknown – Luca Bati, Italian composer (died 1608)
September 3 - Isabella Bendidio, Italian noblewoman and singer (died 1610)
October5 - Cyriakus Schneegas, German Lutheran pastor, hymn-writer, composer and music theorist (died 1597)

date unknown - Joachim a Burck, German hymn writer, composer, organist and Kantor (died 1610)