1565 in music
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Events
- Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
- 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
- Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan.
- Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.
Publications
Secular
- Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
- Bálint Bakfark – Harmoniarum musicarum in usum testudinis factarum, book 1 (Kraków: Lazarus Andrea), a collection of lute tablature
- Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme
- Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals
Sacred
- Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
- Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentationes, Responsoria, Benedictus, Miserere, multaque alia devotissima cantica ad offitium Hebdomadae Sanctae pertinentia (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Diego Ortiz – Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice
Births
- August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
- date unknown
- Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (died 1641)
- Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (died 1621)
- Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (died 1627)
- probable
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
- Michael Cavendish, English court composer (died 1628)
- Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
- Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (died 1622)
- Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
- Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (died 1638)
Deaths
- August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer (born 1500)
- mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (born 1515/1516)
- date unknown – David Köler, German composer (born c.1532)