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Events

Cipriano de Rore leaves his post as maestro di cappella in Ferrara when Alfonso II becomes duke.

Publications

Filippo Azzaiolo – Il secondo libro de villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Eighth book of masses: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Ninth book of masses: Missa A la fontaine du prez for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Pierre Clereau
- First book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Tenth book of chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Johannes de Cleve
- First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
- Second book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Philibert Jambe de Fer – Psalmodie de quarante et un pseaumes royaux (Lyon: Michel Du Bois)
Clément Janequin – Octante deux pseaumes de David traduits en rithme françoise par Cl. Marot et autres avec plusieurs cantiques (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
Mattheus Le Maistre – Catechesis numeris musicis inclusa for three voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova

Births

date unknown - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (died 1625)

Deaths

October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483)
date unknown
- Jacques Collebaut, Breton composer
- Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (born c. 1512)