1570 in music

Events

• 5 July – Annibale Zoilo joins the Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome as an alto.
• 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
• Giovanni Animuccia – Second book of laudi
• Giammateo Asola – First book of masses for five voices
• Ippolito Baccusi
• *First book of masses, for five and six voices
• *First book of madrigals for five and six voices
• Lodovico Balbi – First book of madrigals for four voices
• Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of Giustiniane
• Maddalena Casulana – Second book of madrigals for four voices, the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history
• Pierre Certon – Les meslanges, 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
• Andrea Gabrieli publishes second book of madrigals, for five to eight voices, in Venice
• Orlande de Lassus publishes two books of sacred music, one in Leuven and one in Venice
• Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his third book of masses, for four to six voices, in Rome

  Classical music

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

  Births

• June 13 – Paul Peuerl, German composer and organist
• June 18 – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer
• August 19 – Salamone Rossi, Italian composer
• October 21 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer and music theorist
• probable
• * Giovanni Paolo Cima, Italian composer
• * John Cooper, English composer
• * Ignazio Donati, Italian composer
• * John Farmer, English madrigal composer
• * Claudia Sessa, Italian composer.

  Deaths

• January – Pierre Clereau, composer and choirmaster
• March 25 – Johann Walter, German composer
• September – Jean de Bonmarché, composer
• date unknown – Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist, organist and composer
• probable
• *Jean Maillard, French composer
• *Diego Ortiz, Spanish music theorist and composer