1568 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
• Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
• Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
• Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

Publications

• Cipriano de Rore – Gli amorosi concenti, a collection of madrigals
• Vincenzo Galilei - Fronimo Dialogo, an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.

Births

• February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer (died 1643)
• September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)
• date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (died 1635)

Deaths

• June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture (born 1522; executed)
• October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (born 1514/1515)
• November 12 – Georg Forster, composer (born 1510)