January 31 – Pedro Bermúdez is dismissed from the position of maestro de capilla of the collegiate church at Antequera and briefly imprisoned, for gross negligence and a fight with one of his tenors.[1]
November 15 – Tobias Kühn is appointed to a musical post as a singer but also as a lutenist at the court in Wolfenbüttel.[2]
First book of masses (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
Second book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Twelfth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverde Cremonese discepolo del Sig.r Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri... Libro primo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
Jakob Paix – Parodia mottetae Domine da nobis auxilium, Thomae Crequilonis, senis vocibus, ad Dorium (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
^Robert J. Snow, "Bermúdez, Pedro", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^H.B. Lobaugh, "Kühn [Kühne, Kün, Kun], Tobias", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).