1570 in music

Events

• 5 July – Annibale Zoilo joins the Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome as an alto.<ref>Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).</ref>
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi becomes master of Duke Alfonso of Ferrara's private musica da camera, which was soon to become one of the most distinguished in Europe
• Orlande de Lassus is made a nobleman by Emperor Maximilian II, and knighted by Pope Gregory XIII
• Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
• First appearance of the air de cour, a ubiquitous type of popular secular music in France until around 1650
• Lázaro del Álamo leaves his post as maestro di capilla in Mexico City
• Approximate date of the "Son de la Má Teodora", the earliest surviving example of son montuno from Cuba

Publications

• Lodovico Agostini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Giovanni Animuccia – Second book of laudi (Rome: Camerali for Antonio Blado)
• Giammateo Asola – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Ippolito Baccusi
  • First book of masses, for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Lodovico Balbi – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
• Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of Giustiniane
• Maddalena Casulana – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history
• Pierre Certon – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin), a collection of sacred songs for five, six, seven, and eight voices with one for nine and one for thirteen
• Francesco Corteccia – Responsories for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Guillaume Costeley – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of French chansons for five voices
• Nicolao Dorati – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), containing settings of poems by Vittoria Colonna
• Giovanni Ferretti – Third book of {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli), also includes two for six voices and a dialogue for eight voices
• Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice)
• Nicolas de La Grotte – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • 5 Masses {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (filled with sweet melodies) for four and five voices, book 2 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Mattheus Le Maistre – First book of motets for five voices (Dresden: Gimel Bergen)
• Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of masses, for four to six voices (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

Classical music

• Geert van Turnhout – Missa ‘O Maria vernans rosa’ a 5Template:Citation needed
• Approximate date – Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium

Births

• June 13 (baptized) – Paul Peuerl, German composer and organist (d. c. after 1625).
• June 18 (baptized) – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (d. 1626)
• August 19 – Salamone Rossi, Italian composer (d. 1630)
• October 21 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer and music theorist
• probable
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima, Italian composer (d. 1622)
  • John Cooper (Coprario), English composer (d. 1626)
  • Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (d. 1638)
  • John Farmer, English madrigal composer (d. 1605)
  • Claudia Sessa, Italian composer (d. c. 1617-19)

Deaths

• January – Pierre Clereau, composer and choirmaster
• March 25 – Johann Walter, German composer (b. 1496)
• September – Jean de Bonmarché, composer (b. c. 1525)
• date unknown – Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist, organist and composer (b. c. 1510).
• probable
  • Jean Maillard, French composer (approximate date) (b. c. 1515)
  • Diego Ortiz, Spanish music theorist and composer (approximate date) (b. c. 1510)